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<DATE>2012-07-10</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly Offered to his GRACE, HIS MAJESTY'S HIGH COMMISSIONER, AND THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT, By His MAJESTIES Advocat, for His HIGHNESS Intere&s;t: And by Sir <HI>George Campbell</HI> of <HI>Ce&s;nock.</HI> Sheriff of <HI>Air</HI> Shire, why the Act and Petition, pre&s;ented by the Earl of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils,</HI> as to the Bailiry of <HI>Carrick,</HI> ought not to pa&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>THe Shire of <HI>Air</HI> con&s;i&s;ts of <HI>Kings-kyle,</HI> called, <HI>The Regality of Kyle Steuart,</HI> and of the Bailiries of <HI>Carrick</HI> and <HI>Cuninghame,</HI> both holding of the Prince, and whereof the Earls of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils</HI> and <HI>Eglingtoun</HI> are Heretable Bailies, and over the&s;e Three Juri&s;dictions, the Juri&s;diction of the Sheriff is Cumu|lative, and the Earl of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils</HI> Act and Petition cannot be granted.</P>
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<ITEM>1 <HI>mo.</HI> Becau&s;e it plea&s;ed His Maje&s;ty to make a purcha&s;e from the Lord <HI>Lou|don,</HI> then heretable Sherriff of the &s;aid Sheriff-&s;hip: And His Maje&s;ty having reco|vered it into His own Hands, by payment of a con&s;iderable Sum, it were an evident Diminution of His Maje&s;ty's Right and Intere&s;t to cut off the Bailiry of <HI>Carrick,</HI> and make it an independent Juri&s;diction, exclu&s;ive of the Sheriff.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>do.</HI> By the &s;ame parity of Rea&s;on the Earl of <HI>Eglingtoun</HI> might de&s;ire the like for the Bailiry of <HI>Cuninghame,</HI> which would reduce the Shire and Sheriff-&s;hip al|mo&s;t to nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>tio.</HI> The Earl of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ils</HI> Act and Petition doth contain virtually, the Erecting of the Bailiry of <HI>Carrick</HI> into a Shire, which, no doubt, His Maje&s;ty's Commi&s;&s;ioner will be very tender to do without expre&s;s Warrand.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>to.</HI> This Erection craved for <HI>Carrick</HI> quite breaks the Shire, both as to the <HI>quota</HI> of it's Valuation, and as to the Set of it's Commi&s;&s;ioners, whereof many live with|in <HI>Carrick:</HI> As likeways it prejudges the Town of <HI>Air,</HI> the head Burgh of the whole Shire, where all it's Meetings are kept.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 <HI>to.</HI> The whole Heretors, &s;pecially the King's Tennents in <HI>Carrick,</HI> are al&s;o concerned, in being brought under the independent Juri&s;diction of this new Erection, and taken from the Juri&s;diction of the Sheriff, who is not Heretable, but at the King's Nomination: And this is al&s;o His Maje&s;ty's Intere&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 <HI>to.</HI> It is a vi&s;ible prejudice to <HI>Ce&s;nock,</HI> the pre&s;ent Sheriff, and he ought at lea&s;t to be Cited, before any &s;uch Erection can be made.</ITEM>
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<P>But upon the whole, It's humbly conceived, That both His Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner and the Parliament, will be tender in doing any thing in this Matter, which can only properly be done by a Signature of Erection, under His Maje&s;ty's Hand <GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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