HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



suddenly of the gout in his stomach at his house 

 of Livingstone," on the 10th of October 1767, and 

 was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William. He, 

 Sir William, "was many years Member for Lin- 

 lithgowshire, and has long held several respectable 

 offices in the public service. In 1778, he was 

 appointed Captain in the Duke of Buccleuch's 

 Southern Regiment of Fencibles ; and having in 

 1779 received the appointment of Comptroller of 

 the Board of Green Cloth, which vacated his seat 

 in Parliament, he was again re-elected. During 

 the late Administration in 1806 he was appointed 

 Receiver-General of the land rents of Scotland. He 

 married first, on the 21st of October 1768, Frances, 

 daughter and heiress of the late Sir Robert Myrton 

 of Gogar, Bart., in Mid-Lothian, by whom, who died 



Against this interlocutor Vary petitioned, setting forth that he was 

 only a servant ; and therefore praying, that procedure might be sisted 

 till the gentlemen of the hunt might be called in the process. 



The Sheriff upon answers, refused this petition ; upon which the Earl 

 of Errol and others raised a suspension ; in which they insisted, that, 

 by law, they were entitled to hunt whei'e they pleased, and were 

 entitled to keep Vary as their servant to take care of their dogs. 



Lord Edgefield, Ordinary on the bills, reported the same to the Court ; 

 upon which the following interlocutor was pronounced : — 



" The Lord Ordinary, after advising with the Lords, passes the 

 bill upon caution, prohibiting and discharging Richard Vary, the 

 Earl of Errol, and others, contributors to the Edinburgh Hunt, sus- 

 penders, or any in their company, from hunting or pursuing game by 

 themselves, or with horses, within the inclosures, or upon the grounds 

 of the chargers or their tenants, and from trespassing upon said in- 

 closures, till such time as this suspension shall be discussed ; and 

 that under the penalty of £5 Sterling toties quoties, to be levied from the 

 suspenders, or any of them, conjunctly and severally." — Vide Morison's 

 ' Dictionary of Decisions of 'the Court of Session,' voce " Game," vol. vi. 

 p. 499L 



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