FOR HIGH TREASON, IN SCOTLAND, UNDER A SPECIAL COMMISSION, HELD AT STIRLING, GLASGOW, DUMBARTON, PAISLEY, AND AYR, IN THE YEAR 1820. IN THREE VOLUMES. TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND BY C. J. GREEN. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND CO. PUBLISHED BY MANNERS AND MILLER, 92, PRINCE'S Street. M.DCCC.XXV. TRIALS FOR HIGH TREASON · AT STIRLING, GLASGOW, PAISLEY, DUMBARTON, AND AYR. June, July, and August, 1820. COMMISSION IN LATIN. GEORGIUS QUARTUS, Dei Gratia, Britanniarum Rex, Fidei Defensor, perquam fideli et intime dilecto consanguineo et conciliario nostro, Jacobo Duci de Montrose, Justiciario Generali nostro, in illâ parte regni nostri uniti Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ vocata Scotland, vel Justiciario Generali nostro pro tempore existenti; fideli et dilecto Carolo Hope, Armigero, nostri Collegii Justitiæ præsidi, vel præsidi nostri Collegii Justitiæ pro tempore existenti; perquam fideli et dilecto Conciliario nostro Davidi Boyle, Armigero, Justiciario Clerico nostro, vel Justiciario Clerico nostro pro tempore existenti; perquam fideli et dilecto Conciliario nostro, Samueli Shepherd, Equiti, Capitali Baroni Scaccarii nostri in parte regni nostri prædicta, vel Capitali Baroni dicti Scaccarii nostri pro tempore existenti; perquam fideli et dilecto Conciliario nostro, Gulielmo Adam, A |