Manuscripta juridica

Decisiones curiae supremae Scotiae - Practicks 1592-1624 'Sex goldin buttones': (1609-1624, alphabetical digest) .

Keywords are written in large letters on the upper rim of the pages. They progress through the alphabet, from 'Airs' to 'Witnesses': fol. 156r-167v letter A, fol. 168r-174r letter B, fol. 174v-183v letter C, etc. - but within each letter of the alphabet the keywords are not arranged in any order, and individual keywords which were already used higher up often recur again below

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Author(s):

• Thomas Hamilton later 1st Earl of Haddington

No. of pages: Fol. 156r-262r

Rubric: Practiques collected befor the Lords of Session by the Earl of Hadinton

Incipit:

• [{i}First two items:{/i}] Airs. Six golden buttons upon the fathers skin coatt and tuo oxen of eight set in steilbow found to pertain to the air. In ane action pursued be Mr. Robert Boyd advocat against his mother and John Russall now her spouse ... 4 November 1609.

  Ane annualrent provyded to the husband.

  [{i}Last but one item:{/i}] Woods are not regalia, bot onlie forrests. The conjunctfier infeft in the lands ... The relict of young Gaitguth, spouse now of Darash, being pursued be hunters and others alledging them to have bought the wood of N. from the Laird of Gaitguth ... 10 Januarie 1610.

  [{i}Last item:{/i}] Witnesses not particularly designed examined, but prejudice to examin others of the lyk nature. In the action of improbation, pursued be Alexander Pringle of Leyes against the Erle of Home, the Lords receaved and examined tuo witnesses bearing the names ... of the lyk names at the nixt terme of probation. 29 Julie 1623