To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Honourable Estates of Parliament. The humble petition of John Weir of Newton. Weir, John, of Newton, fl. 1695. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06504 of text R186353 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W1258D). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B06504 Wing W1258D ESTC R186353 52529085 ocm 52529085 179232 2240875099

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06504) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179232) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2780:33) To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Honourable Estates of Parliament. The humble petition of John Weir of Newton. Weir, John, of Newton, fl. 1695. Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates. 1 sheet (1 p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1695] Caption title. Imprint from Wing. For the payment of damages awarded to him against John Hamilton of Gilkerscleugh. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Weir, John, -- of Newtown, fl. 1695 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Hamilton, John, -- of Gilkerscleugh, fl. 1695 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Libel and slander -- Scotland -- Cases -- 17th century. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Honourable Estates of Parliament. The humble petition of John Weir of Newton. [Weir, John, of Newtown] 1695 4 682 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2012-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2012-04 Sampled and proofread 2012-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2012-05 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To hi Grace His MAJESTIES High Commissioner . and the Honourable Estates of PARLIAMENT . The Humble PETITION of JOHN WEIR OF NEWTON , Sheweth ,

THAT by a special Remit from the Second Session of this current Parliament , to the Commission for Fines and Forfaultures , I having pursued John Hamilton of Kilkerscleugh , to pay to me the Damnage and Expenses which I was put to , by the malicious Information of the said John Hamilton against me , and wrongous Imprisonment of me thereupon , in Anno 1683 , for the alledged Crimes of Treason therein contained : And this being considered by the Commission , They , by their Interloquitor dated the 2 of February 1691 Years , Fand , That the said John Hamilton had out of Malice threatned to pursue me to the Gallows ; and that he did wilfully Inform against me , when he was under no necessity to do the same : And therefore fand him liable to refound to me so much of the Damnage and Expenses libelled , as they should modify , I proving my Imprisonment for the Crimes he informed against me , and giving my Oath in litem for the Expenses , and assigned a Day , and allowed Diligence to me for that effect ; and allowed him to be heard upon this Defence : viz. That he offered to prove , That he was forced to Depone against me , prior to the time deponed upon by my Witnesses : Conform whereunto I adduced Witnesses before the said Commission , and gave my Oath in litem upon the Expenses : And therefore the said Commission by their last Interloquitor , dated the Tenth Day of February 1691 Years , Fand , That the only Cause of my Imprisonment was , the Information given in by Gilkerscleugh against me , and that I continued in Prison more than Two Years ; and that they were of opinion , That Kilkerscleugh ought to be decerned to pay to me , Three Thousand and Five Hundred Merks Scots Money , for the Causes foresaid , with Annualrent from the Date of the said Interloquitor . Which Action having since lyen over unprosecute , I , conform to an Act of this present Session of Parliament , gave in a new Petition to the Committee of Parliament for Security of the Kingdom , for a Warrand to Cite the said John Hamilton before the Parliament , to the effect above-written : And accordingly , upon the 18 Day of June 1695 , They granted Warrand to Macers , or Messengers at Arms , to Cite , or Intimate , to the said John Hamilton to appear before the Parliament , upon Twenty Eight Hours , if within the Town of Edinburgh , and if forth thereof , upon Ten Days : And upon the Twenty Day of the said Month of June , I caused James Aikman Messenger , lawfully Summond the said John Hamilton personally , to appear before the Parliament the First Day of July next to come , to the effect above-written , as the said Petition , Warrand and Execution thereon , herewith produced , will testify : And seing that the said Cause has long depended , and is not yet brought to a Conclusion , notwithstanding of the Justness thereof , and the warrantable procedure therein , in manner above-represented .

May it therefore please Your Grace and honourable Estates of Parliament , to take the Premisses to Your most serious Consideration , and conform to the Interloquitor of the said Commission of Parliament for Fines and Forfaultures , to discern the said John Hamilton of Kilkerscleugh to make payment to me of the Sum of Three Thousand and Five Hundred Merks , modified by them to me , with Annualrent thereof since the said Tenth Day of February 1691 , and in time coming , during the not payment According to Justice .

And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray , &c.