Mark Coleman Wallace PhD Thesis - University of St Andrews

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Our will is Herefore and we charge you Strictly and Command that
incontinent these our letters Seen ye pass and in our Name an Authority lawfully
Command and Charge the said John Andrew and Robert Ramsay above
complained upon To compear and to come and find Sufficient Caution and
Surety acted in the Books of Adjournal That they shall compear before our said
Lords in a Circuit of Justiciary to be holden by them or any one or more of their
Number within the Tolbooth or Criminal Court House of Ayr upon the said
seventeenth day of September Next to come in the hour of cause there to under
by the law for the Crimes above mentioned and that under the pain contained in
the Acts of Parliament And that ye charge them personally if they can be
apprehended and failing thereof at their dwellings and by Open Proclamation at
the Market Cross of the head Burgh of the Shire, [Illegible] or other Jurisdiction
where they dwell to come and find the said caution and Surety acted in manner
foresaid within Six says Next after they are Charged by you thereto under the
pain of Rebellion & putting of them to the horn wherein if they faill the said six
days Being by gone and the said Caution and Surety not found nor no Intimation
made by them to you of the finding thereof That incontinent thereafter ye
denounce them our Rebels put them to our horn and escheat and [illegible] bring
all their moveable goods and gear to our use for their contempt and disobedience
and That ye within fifteen days thereafter cause Registrate these our letters with
the Executions thereof in our books of Adjournal conform to the Act of
Parliament and if they come and find the said Caution and Surety acted in
Manner foresaid and Intimation being always made by them to you of the
finding thereof That ye Summon [Document ends here].
Exculpation for John Andrew and Robert Ramsay
At Maybole the thirtieth day of June Eighteen Hundred Years In consequence of
a Warrant Granted by John Murdoch Esq. Sheriff Subst. of the County of Ayr,
of date the twenty Eighth of June Current on a petition at the instance of Robert
Aiken and James Hume Procurators fiscal of the Country of Ayr,…Robert
Ramsay cart wright in Maybole being brought before the Lord Sheriff Substitute
and Examined Declares That he has resided in Maybole for these three years and
upwards and lived in Cullyzean [Culzean] or the near neighbourhood of it since
his Infancy, That about four or five Years past at new year’s day last he was
admitted a Member of the Maybole Lodge No. 14, to the degree of a Master
Mason, That the declarent and John Andrew Shoemaker in Maybole hearing that
there was higher degrees of Masonry to be obtained at Ayr they went down and
made application to St James’s Newton. That Rodger McClellan Master of that
lodge with the assistance of some other of the Brethren raised them to the degree
of Arch Royal Arch and Knight Templars, That when they came home some of
the Members of the Maybole Lodge No. 14 were desireous also to be
admitted…they applied to Dr. Logan in Maybole who was Master of the
Maybole Lodge for his authority and particularly for the loan of the cloathing of
the lodge as they could not make them with it, That Dr. Logan acquainted them
if it was for the Good of Masonry he had no objections that any of the Members