[1644/6/8]¹

Warrant: concerning the justice courts

Warrant to the justice

The estates of parliament grant warrant and power to the chief justice and justice deputes to keep and hold their courts and diets and proceed and administer justice therein according to the law notwithstanding of the sitting of this high court of parliament, and especially without prejudice of the generality aforesaid to proceed in the matter criminal between [Sir Robert Bruce], laird of Clackmannan and Gavin Marshall, and ordain the justice to acquaint the parliament before any interlocutor or sentence in this particular.