Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 25 February 1680
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There being a great clamour and outcry against the extortion used at the Chancery, the Lords appointed a visitation to be made, and the Register, &c. to try the abuses and exorbitant exactions there. George Cockburn, the depute, would not bide the trial; and so Sir William Ker placed John Campbell the writer therein. Some demand why they pass free for bygones, seeing we hang men for very small thefts.
