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<DATE>2011-09-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>To his Grace, His Majesties high Commi&s;&s;ioner, and Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament,</HI> The PETITION of Alexander Strachan <HI>of</HI> Glenkindie</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat the Petitioner being conveened before the Lords of Ju&s;ticiarie, in the year 1676, upon them litious I<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rmation of the decea&s;t <HI>Adam Gordon</HI> of <HI>Glenbucket,</HI> and &s;ome other Neighbours, anent his being in Acce&s;&s;ion to the Slaughter of one <HI>Alexander So<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">r,</HI> and put under an exorbi|tant Bail of 20000 <HI>lib. Scots,</HI> for his Compearance upon the 27 day of <HI>Novem|ber</HI> the &s;aid year, and for pre&s;enting &s;uch of his Men, Tennents and Servant<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> as &s;hould be cited as Parties, and Witne&s;&s;es to the &s;aid day, which Bond was extorted from him <HI>metu Carceris,</HI> and yet he fullfilled the &s;ame in all Poin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, &s;o far as was pos&s;ible for him; for he gave punctual Obedience and Attendance him&s;elf, and pre&s;ented &s;uch of his men, Tennents and Servants, as he was in|formed were cited; and yet &s;ome per&s;ons de&s;igned in the Executions, Ser|vants to him, being ab&s;ent, he and his Cautioner were unlaw'd in the haill fore&s;aid Sum of 20000 <HI>lib.</HI> as if he had performed no part of his Bond, and this Penalty after a long time in the late Reign, was gifted to Sr <HI>Adam Blair</HI> of <HI>Carberrie,</HI> and thereupon Diligence done again&s;t your Petitioner and his E&s;tate. and thereby your Petitioner &s;ubjected to a mo&s;t illegal and unwarrantable Burden; For Remeid whereof, he having applyed to the Lords of Ju&s;ticiary, in <HI>February</HI> la&s;t: Their Lord&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ips refu&s;ed to liberat your Petitioner from the fore&s;aid exorbitant Penaltie, and the Diligence which followed thereupon; <HI>But prejudice to the Petitioner to pur&s;ue the &s;ame before the next se&s;&s;ion of Parliament;</HI> whereupon the Petitioner obtained a Warrand from the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, and cau&s;ed Summond the &s;aid Donatar and his Facttor, with the other lawful Contradictors in the Cau&s;e, to compear before your Grace, and the Honourable E&s;tates, to a certain day now elap&s;ed, as the Signet Sum|monds and Executions herewith produced doth bear.</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace, and the Honourable E&s;tates, to hear the Petitioners Advocats in the &s;aid Cau&s;e, or to Remit to the Committee for privat Cau&s;es, to hear and prepare the &s;ame, that Your Grace, and the States may determine therein according to Ju&s;tice.</P>
<CLOSER>And Your Petitioner &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CLOSER>
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