Criminal Trials and Other Proceedings Before the High Court of JusticiaryMaitland club, 1831 |
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Page 351 - JAMES, be the grace of God, King of Scottis ; To all and findrie our lieges and fubditis, quhom1 Wodrow's MSS.
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Page 252 - And quhair as, fume of yow thinks that he is bot ane fuppofitius man, and that his Depofitioun is rather a policie then any veritie ; that is mair incredible to me, nor any other thing of this actioun vnto yow ; and if my...
Page 219 - One Colvil hath sent the King the collection of the fortune to befall Gowrye, upon his nativity, written with the Earl's hand, in French, at Orleans, and there found, containing that he should return, be in great credit, seek for a wife, and yet dye with his sword in his hand, before he should be married.
Page 248 - MS. Adv. Library, Vol. V. p. 393. — This and the other Discourse by Galloway have been often referred to, by writers on the subject of the Gowrie Conspiracy. It is probable that the first of them contains all that was delivered at the time ; and the Sermon, to which the other ' harangue' served as the Application, does not seem to have been preserved.
Page 317 - I will allure your honour, upon my faith, it could not have been better carried, nor clofelier handled by any creatures living, than by them, during their being here. For myfelf did never fee them but once, and that was at midnight, only myfelf; and for any other, I know they kept themfelves clofe enough ; for they dürft do no otherwife, they were fo afraid of themfelves.
Page 277 - Mackenzie, in his Treatise on the Criminal Law, B. 1, Title 6, § 22, says, ' Albeit the bones of the defunct traitor are ordinarily taken up and brought to the pannel, in pursuits of this nature, as was done in the forefaulture of the Laird of Restalrig, yet this is not necessary.
Page 330 - I wiflie, whilk will give me the greteft contentment of all. Sua crauing earneftly of that Creator of all thingis to blifs...
Page 220 - Latine are my lords owne hand-writing; but he knowee not if the Hebrew characters were written by my lord. Depones further, that when my lord would change his clothes, the deponer would take the characters out of my lords pocket, and would fay to my lord, ' Wherefore ferves thefe ?' And my lord would anfwer, < Can you not let them be ? they do you no evil!.