The speeches and judgement of the right honourable the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland, upon the important cause, His Grace George-James Duke of Hamilton and others, pursuers; against Archibald Douglas, defender / Accurately taken down and published by William Anderson.

  • Scotland. Court of Session.
Date:
1768
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Credit: The speeches and judgement of the right honourable the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland, upon the important cause, His Grace George-James Duke of Hamilton and others, pursuers; against Archibald Douglas, defender / Accurately taken down and published by William Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their police-book, to the book of Michell, where Sir John is fet down by name, tho’ wrong fpelt, as entering upon the 8th of July, and this book fupported by the oath of Michell and his wife, who fwear pofitively that the very day Sir John came to their houfe they remember that his name was fet dov/n in the book ; and Madame Michell further adds, r] hat it was by this book they accounted with their lodgers for the rent of their rooms : It is certain that the purfuers at firft put their eaufe wholely upon the credit of this book; and they have told your Lordfhips, that they did not then believe Godefroy’s tale, which contradicted it. But they fhould inform your Lordfhips, why they did not believe it then, and believe it now; or why your Lordfhips fhould believe what they themfelves did not at firft believe ? The cafe has plainly been, that they were refolved at any rate to find an alibi; and, having determined, after much deliberation, and contrary to their firft refolu- tion, as appears evidently from Danjou’s me¬ morial above quoted, to fix the alibi in Gode¬ froy’s, they accordingly adopt his tale. But; your Lordfhips not having come to ftudy this eaufe with a refolution to find an im- pofture, but rather a contrary inclination, will