Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

1510.] JUSTICK EVRE 01' DUMFRIES. 21
tlic said trespassouris and pviiiss tliunic ncoonliiig to th;iir domcrctis ; and gif the said
warJane and stc\vev[t] and the saidis lordis, hirdis and wtbiris landit mou and gcntil-
mcn, vndir quais juvisdictiouDj vpoun thair laudis, rowmes and bailliercis the saidis
trespassouris duellis, beis remiss and cxecuti.s uocht justice as saidis, thai salbe balding
to refoyud, content and pay to tlic persouu or personis comploand tbair lieill skaith,
dampnage and interess, and sail answer to the kingis grace vpone tbeir ncgligance and
deferring to do iustice vpoun thair vtirmest chawange.
Item, gif ony lord, barroun, landit man or gentilmcu bappinuis in tyme cuming to
laubour or solist for ane tbeif or ressettair of tb[ift], or to procure or defend him in
ony maner of way, he salbo haldin and repute as infame and scbamyt and culpable
of that thcvis deid, if it salhappiu him to be convict.
Item, the said Robcit, Lord JIasvell, stev.'crt and wardauc foirsaid, hes faitbfullie
proraittit in preseus of my lord iustice and lordis foirsaidis, sittaud iu iugemeut, that
gif ony personis duelland within the boundis that he hes cure, rewle and gyding of
vndir the kingis grace, that [is to] say, Annandirdaill, Eskdaill, Ewisdaill and
Wauchojidail), conimittis or salliappin to commit in ony tyme cuming sic ciymcs,
trespassis and oficnces as is aboncwrittin, he sail with all rigour justify the i^ersonis
commitf[aris] thairof to the vtirmest poynt, as the lawis of the realme requiris, as he
hes or salhappin to hauc auetorite of the kingis grace thairto, without fanour or delay,
as he sail ansv.'er to the kingis grace tbairupoun.
Item, it is deuisit, statute aud ordanit, vrith the auise, consent and assent of the
said Lord Maxwell, that frathiufurth for the spcce of ane yeir he sail hald at tlie
bcgynning of ilk moueth ids stewart court of AnuandirdaOl, and sail inquire at euery
court be the maist famouss and honest men out throw the stewartrie, gif thair be ony
personis, thevis or resettaris of thevis in thair thifteous deidis, sen the ending of this
instant air aud getting of thair pai-douu and remissioun, and as sic personis beis
fundiu aud nottit suspect of thift or resset of thift, he sail pvniss thame conforme to
the lawis of this realme in maner abonewritten ; aud sail sicliko hald Courtis for
Eskdall, Ewisdaill and AVauchopdaill, and als his wardanc courtds, swa that the
inhabitantis of the saidis cuntreis may be brocht in vse to ken aud knaw the ordoure
of iustice and to leif thaireftir ; and sail sielike, in all vthiris yeiris to cum, hald the
saidis conrttis to the efl'ect abone writtin alsoft as he sail thinkis expedient.
Ueir followis the subscriptionis of the lordis and barronis cf Nythisdaill and
Annandirdaill, that ar to saye, &c.