Further Exercises
Exercise 7
The next example is the confirmation clause for the testament which featured in Exercise 6.
(National Archives of Scotland, CC12/3/6 p18
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- I John Blain principal Commissary of the Commissariot
- and Diocess of the Isles
(after
due warning
- made by public form of Edict openly
)
Ratify Ap-
- prove and Confirm this present Testament Dative and
- Inventory in So far as the
is
made and
-
and Give and Committ full
- with the Debts and sums of money abovewritten to the said John
- Hamilton Tenant in Glenshant lawfull brother German and
- Mary Janet Jean Margaret Elisabeth Anne and Geills Hamil-
- tons lawfull sisters German and
Transcription of lines 1-10
(National Archives of Scotland, CC12/3/6 p18)
-
to the said
their brother And if need be to
- call Charge and pursue therefor as accords of the Law Because
- Henrie Bannatyne shoemaker in the Cladoch of Arran has
- become
for making the said sums
forthcoming to all
- partys having
as the Law directs
In witness whereof
-
are
by me and my Clerk of Court at
- Rothesay the fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and
- sixty three years John Blain
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