of  Braxfield,  our  justice  clerk,  or  our  justice
clerk  for  the  time  being ;  Alexander  Murray,
esq. of  Henderland ;  David  Rae,  esq. of  Esk-
grove; John  Swinton,  esq. of  Swinton;  sir
William  Nairn,  of  Dunsinnan,  baronet ;  and
Alexander  Abercrombie^  esq. of  Abercrombie,
commissioners  of  justiciary ;  James  Montgo-
mery, esq. of  Stanhope,  chief  baron  of  our
court  of  exchequer,  in  the  aforesaid  past  of
our  kingdom  aforesaid,  or  our  chief  baron  of
our  court  of  exchequer  aforesaid,  for  the  time
being;  and  Fletcher  Norton,  esq. senior  baron
pf  our  said  court  of  exchequer,  greeting : —

*  Taken  in  short-hand  by  Blanchard. For
corrections  of  sqpneerpors  in  the  original  edi-
tion of  this  triil,  I  am  indebted  to  Mr. Robert
Hunilton,  who  was  one  of  the  counsel  for  the
prisoner. Another  but  Teiy  imperfect  ac-
count of  thb  trial,  was  published,  purporting
to  have  been  ^  taken  u  short-hand  by  an
English  barrister.''


Know  ye,  that  we,  by  virtue,  and  accord*
ing  to  the  form  of  toe  statute,  made    in
the  seventh  year  of  the  reign  of  our  royad
predecessor,  Anne,  late  queen  of  Great  Bri-*
tain,  &c. 