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Heritors of Kirkcudbright v. Birtwhistle

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Session Papers

Petition

Unto the Right Honourable Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Friends, the Petition of the Right Hon. Dunbar Earl of Selkirk, and others, Heritors of the Parish of Kirkcudbright

22 Jun 1790
Answers

Answers for William Birtwhistle, of Raeberry; to the Petition of the Right Honourable Dunbar Earl of Selkirk, and others

16 Nov 1790
Petition

Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds, the Petition of William Birtwhistle of Raeberry

21 Dec 1790
Answers

Answers for the Right Honourable Dunbar, Earl of Selkirk, and Others, Heritors of the Parish of Kirkcudbright; to the Petition of William Birtwhistle, Esq. of Raeberry

28 Jun 1792

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