Memoir of Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, President of the Court of Session, and Chancellor of Scotland: With an Appendix Containing a List of the Various Presidents of the Court and Genealogical Tables of the Legal Families of Erskine, Hope, Dalrym
Memoir of Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, President of the Court of Session, and Chancellor of Scotland: With an Appendix Containing a List of the Various Presidents of the Court and Genealogical Tables of the Legal Families of Erskine, Hope, Dalrym
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...with his followers, he was entitled to free entertainment, in what is now denominated the Palace, when attending the regality courts; but this privilege was afterwards commuted into a grant of ten chalders of teind black oats yearly, and the whole kain, capons, and poultry of the lordship. On the 3d of April 1611, he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...with his followers, he was entitled to free entertainment, in what is now denominated the Palace, when attending the regality courts; but this privilege was afterwards commuted into a grant of ten chalders of teind black oats yearly, and the whole kain, capons, and poultry of the lordship. On the 3d of April 1611, he obtained another charter from Queen Anne, with consent of her husband, proceeding on his own resignation, and embracing, among other subjects, the heritable offices of bailery and justiciary of the lordship and regality of Dunfermline, " on both sides of the river and water of Forth." Besides the office of Bailie of the Regality, there was also that of Constable, or Keeper of the Palace and adjoining grounds, which was first conferred on Seton, as Lord Urquhart, in 1596, and confirmed to him and his heirs for ever, by Act of Parliament in 1606, after he had become Earl of Dunfermline. In the spring of 1612, a small Popish scandal crops up in the Minutes of the Synod of Fife, in which Mr Andrew f "SCANDAL OF THE CRUCIFIX." 103 Forrester, minister at Dunfermline,1 and Chancellor Seton, are prominently implicated. At the diocesan synod held at St Andrews in April, "thair was presented ane letter from Mr Andro Forrester, minister at Dunfermline, offering excuis for his absence, in respect of sickness; as also ane apologie of his dealing in the scandall of the crucifix, payntit vpon my Lord Chancellor his dask in the said kirk." It further appears that the matter was found to have "giffen gryt offenss to the haill country;" and accordingly, power and commission was granted to certain "brethren" to convene with the Archbishop at St Andrews on the 12th of May, in order to try and examine the Chancellor...
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