Captain Simon Fraser of Beaufort, and many other persons,
mostly of the clan Fraser, for high treason, in forming un-
lawful associations, collecting an armed force, occupying
and fortifying houses and garrisons, imprisoning and ra-
vishing persons of distinguished rank, and continuing in
arms after being charged by a herald to lay them down,
Mr. John Thomson and Charles Auchmouty, servants to
the African Company, for treason and leasing-making,
by designing and causing to be engraved, a political
print,
Archibald Macdonald, son to Coll Macdonald of Barrisdale,
as attainted of high treason,
Patrick Roy Macgregor, for theft, sorning, wilful fire-rais-
ing, robbery, and murder,
Agnes Johnston, for the murder of Lamb, a child, 156
Andrew Rutherford of Townhead, for the murder of James
Douglas, brother to Sir William Douglas of Cavers, 158
George Clerk and John Ramsay, for the murder of John
Anderson, merchant in Edinburgh,
James Gray, litster in Dalkeith, for the murder of Archi-
bald Murray, Gentleman, of his Majesty's Troop of
Guards,
John Chislie of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon.
Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath, Lord President of
the Court of Session, and Member of his Majesty's Privy
Council,
John Master of Tarbet, Ensign Andrew Mowat, and James
Sinclair, writer in Edinburgh, for the murder of Elias
Poiret, Sieur de la Roche,
John Gillespie, merchant in Glasgow, John Anderson of
Dovehill, and Robert Stevenson, glazier in Glasgow, for
the murder of Major James Menzies,
George Cumming, writer in Edinburgh, for the murder of
Patrick Falconar, soldier in Lord Lindsay's regiment,
James Carnegie of Finhaven, for the murder of Charles Earl
of Strathmore,
James Stewart in Aucharn, for the murder of Colin Camp-
bell of Glenure,
Malcolm Macgregor, alias John Grant, for the murder of
John Stewart, both of the parish of Glengairn, Aberdeen-
shire. Doctrine of Prescription of Crimes established,
John Guthrie, for notour, i. e. notorious adultery,
Patrick Robertson and Marion Kempt, for adultery,
John Fraser, writer in Edinburgh, for adultery,
Margaret Haitly, for adultery,
John Murdoch and Janet Douglas, for adultery,
Trial of John Ogilvie, Jesuit, for saying of Mass, acknow-
ledging the Pope to be judge in controversies of Religion,
and declining to answer certain questions put by his
Majesty's Commissioners, concerning the Pope's powers
to excommunicate Kings, the murder of a King excom.
municated and deposed by the Pope, and a subject's be-
ing absolved from the allegiance due to such a King,
Mr. John Wallace, for saying of Mass, being habit and re-
pute a Popish priest, and refusing to take the formula,
Sir James Ker, for celebrating clandestine and irregular
marriage,
John Connachar, for the same offence,
No. I. Supersedere, or personal protection from arrest,
granted to John Earl of Gowrie, June 20, 1600,
No. II. Excerpts from the Summondis of Treassoun' a-
gainst Robert Logane, eldest sone to Robert Logane, sum-
tyme of Restalrig, and his tutors and curators, on account
of the said deceast Robert Logane's accession to the E. of
Gowrie's conspiracy,
No. III. Trial of Thomas Scott, Henry Yair, &c. for trea-
sonably rising in arms, and keeping her Majesty a prison-
er, on the night that Riccio was murdered,
No. IV. Confession of the Laird of Ormiston, who was
executed for the murder of Darnley,
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