Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ Document : 389 Title: Sassine, Concerning the Claim on an Estate, 22 Oct 1720 Author(s): Anonymous EdinburghSaturday ye twenty Second day of October One thouſand Seven hundred and twenty By the Commiſsioners and Trustees Nominated and appointed for putting in Execution the powers and authorities Related to the forfeited Estates in Scotland In and by an Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Reign of his presents majesty King George intituted an Act for appointing Commiſsioners to enquire of the Estates of certain Traitors and of Popish Recuſants and of Estates given to Superstitious uſes in order to raiſe money out of them Severally for the uſe of the Publick and also In and by another Act of parliament made in the fourth year of the Reign of his said present Majesty Intituted an act for Vesting the forfeited Estates in Great Brittain and Ireland in Trustees to be sold for the uſe of the Publick and for giving Relief to Lawfull Creditors by Determining the Claims and for the more effectuall bringing in to the Respective Exchequers the Rents and profites of the said Estates till sold. The Claim of William Miller in Easter Altoun on the Estate late of William late Viscount of Kilsyth attainted being appointed to be this day determined and the Claimant duly summoned to attend the Determination thereof on his behalf appeared before the said Commiſsioners and Trustees thereupon when the said Claim was read (The same setting forth that William late Viscount of Kilsyth having sold to the Claimant the Tennendry or Mealling of Land in Easter Altoun within the parish of Campsie and Sherrefdome of Stirling for the sum of Two thousand Two hundred marks or One hundred and twenty two pound four shilling five penxe and one thirrd Sterling Did by his Receipt and Oblidgment of the twenty first of May one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen acknowledge That he had recieved of the Claimant the sum of One thouſand marks on fifty five pound Eleven shillings one pence and one third sterling in past payment of the forsaid Agreed price of the saids lands and oblidged him to grant to the Claimant a few Contract or Charter when required The Claimant always giving him sufficient Security for Twelve hundred merks or Sixty Six pound thirteen shillings and four pence Sterling as ye remains of the pryce of the saids lands payable at martinmas one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen with @rent therefore from martinmas one thouſand seven hundred and fourteen (which was the time agreed to be the Claimant's entry to the poſseſsion of the saids lands) to Martinmas one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen and the @rent of the said one thouſand Marks then paid from martinmas one thouſand Seven hundred and fourteen to Whitsunday one thouſand seven hundrd and fifteen being half a year's @rent and the said Receipt and Oblidgment is registred in the Sherriff Court Books of Stirling upon the tenty day of December one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen Therefore praying that the Claimant be [¿] stated a Creditor upon the lands and Estate kilsyth for the said sum of Fifty five pound &ten shilling one pence and one third Sterling and @rents thereof since the twenty first day of May one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen or otherwayes That the Claimant be allowed to continue in poſseſsion of the saids lands and have a sufficient right given him to the same for payment of Sixty Six pound thirteen shilling and four pence sterling and @rents thereof abovementioned being the remaining price of the saids lands In Regaird the Bargain was made and the money paid in presence of Credible witneſses as by the sid Claim entered on Record in this Court appears and the Vouchers thereof were produced and the said as also Councill for the publick were heard therto and the Claimant's Deposition taken to the Verity of the said Debt of one thouſand merks and Interest yrof from the said twenty first day of May one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen wa read and the Deposition of James Stark Baillie in Kilsyth and Robet Lang in Gateside Witneſses adduced On the behalf of the Claimant (they thereby deposing that at or upon the twenty first day of May one thouſand seven hundred and fifteen they were witneſses to the late Viscount of Kilsyth his agreeing to [¿] to William Miller in Altoun the lands of Easter Altoun with the pertinents for the Sum of Two thouſand two hundred merks money whereof he paid One thouſand Marks to the asid late Viscount in presence of them the Deonents and further Deposing that the only nd true cauſe of the said William Miller his paying to the said late Viscount the sd sum was upon Condition of his getting and Few Right of the lands abovementioned was also read. Now this day the said Commiſsioners and Trustees having fully considered of the sid Claim Vouchers and Depositions and of what was offered of the behalf of the Claimant and of ye publick Do find that the sid Claimaant having paid the sum of one thouſand marks Scots money in part of the said Five thouſand and two hundred merks like money (mentioned in the Contract claimed upon) to the said late Viscount and fully performing the same by payment of Twelve hundred