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Ius proprium Scotiae - Registers of Acts and Decreets : remarkable decrees, interlocutors, admissions of personnel, Acts of Sederunt, etc., extracts

Incipit:

  • At the first begineing of the [and then:] Session ther was not severall books of Sederunt

Ius proprium Scotiae - Registers of Acts and Decreets: remarkable decrees, interlocutors, admissions of personnel, Acts of Sederunt, etc., extracts (1537-1555/5/24).

The collector perused many volumes of the court's Register of Decreets, although not always in their chronological order, and he excerpted from them what appeared to be remarkable and memorable

No. of pages: Fol. 163r-195r

Rubric: Nottes and observationes gatherit out of the Books of Sederunt of the Lords of Session

Incipit:

  • At the first begineing of the Session ther was not severall books of Sederunt fra the books of acts and decreits, as we have now, bot the note of the Sederunt was prefixt everie day to the acts and decreits, and in the same book of acts and decreits inserit the admission of the Lords and the statuts of Session. The first book of the Lords registre efter the erection of the Session begines upon the 7 of November 1537 and einds 24 September 1538.

    [{i}Excerpts are sampled from the following volumes of the Register of Decreets:{/i}].

    1537/11/7-1538/9/24 (fol. 163r).

    1538/11/14-1538/3/21 (fol. 170r).

    1539/2/16-1540/11/17 (fol. 171v).

    1540/11/19-1541/7/4 (fol. 174r).

    1539/2/16-1540/11/17 (again, on fol. 175v).

    1541/2/8-1542/5/25 (fol. 176v).

    1542/6/26-1543/2/13 (fol. 180r).

    1544/11/5-1545/3/11 (fol. 182v).

    1545/3/14-1546/3/16 (fol. 184r).

    1546/3/17-1549/4/1 (fol. 184v).

    1544/11/5-1545/3/11 (fol. 185v, again).

    1545/3/18-1546/3/16 (fol. 187r).

    [{i}There follow several more series of extracts, from eight more volumes.{/i}].

    (Fol. 187r, sample:) [{i}The Court detected a forgery, by checking the watermark in the paper:{/i}] 20 August 1545. Memorandum. Decreits of non-entres David Strachan, assigney to James Strachan of Carmyle ... and his book and registre producit was (1.) sa spatious in thir probabiliteis, to witt it was never writtin, 2. writtin upon a new leiff of paper different from the meik of the rest of the paper, 3. writin with ane uther hand, 4. was baikit to mak it appear old