[1702/6/35]¹

Procedure: charge read; copies provided; defendants summoned to answer

Her majesty's advocate exhibited the said charge, which, being read, the said advocates that had enacted themselves were called and the charge read to them.

The dean of faculty, for himself and in name of the others called, craved a competent time to answer the libel, it being complex.

Her majesty's advocate declared that the defenders should have a copy of the libel and instructions thereof, with a list of the witnesses, and craved that a copy given to the dean of faculty should be sufficient for him and the rest, to which the defenders agreed.

But thereafter, her majesty's advocate declared he would give a copy to each of them, but that the documents should be put in the dean of faculty's hands to serve for him and the rest, which was agreed to and ordered to be marked.

Ordered that the defenders give in their answers to the charge on Tuesday next, with continuation.