Accounting dispute over remittances and debts between Hugh Douglas and creditors, with detailed itemized receipts and deductions, culminating in a settlement balance.
Kirkcudbright burgh council petitions the Court of Session to overturn an interlocutor finding them liable for a debtor’s escape, arguing their prison was legally sufficient and their care adequate.
Answers by Ebenezer Halliday, William Beck, James Stewart, James Brown of Linkens, Thomas Smith in Todstown, Robert Glendinning Upper Senwick, and others, responding to the condescendence for William Herries, Pursuer of a Process of Cessio Bonorum.
State of the Process, Archibald Affleck against the Magistrates of Kirkcudbright, asserting the defenders' liability for the escape of William Herries from prison
Answers by William Thorp to the petition of William Dean and self, responding that the debtor is not in meditatione fugae nor intending to evade payment