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in Galliam comitaturus esset, arbitratus non satis tutum Makin-
toshium post se liberum relinquere, quamvis, nullam dignam
expetendi supplicii caussam reperiebat, tamen sub prætextû
Legis de vivis ducit, ubi, in Prætorio Abredonensi 2 Aug. 1550
curiolâ habitâ, de proditione adversus Huntleum (tunc Reginæ
vicarium in Septentrione) accusatur. Juridici nominati fuerant
Gulielmus Seton de Meldrum, Gulielmus Udny de eodem,
Alexander Crawford de Fedderet, Johannes Forbes de Towy,
Alexander Lesly de eoden, Gulielmus Cheyn de Strathloch,
Gilbertus Gray de Shives, Thomas Chalmer de Cuits, Thomas
Meldrum de Iden, Alexander Chalmer de Belnacraig, Patricius
Cheyn de Essilmont, Miles Alexander Con de Aucri, et
Johannes Seton de Disblair, omnes Clientes Huntlei. Testes
adducti erant Donaldus McWilliam vic dai dui servus quondam
Johannis Malcolmsoni præfati (ad Rothiemurchus decollati
propter cædem Lauchlani Domini Makintoshii) Rei patris (et
alter testis præfatus Lauchlanus, Johannis Malcolmsoni filius,
qui, ut ait Lesleus) faces, ad Gulielmum Makintoshium tollen-
dum, et prætulisse et subjecisse putabatur.

MAKINTOSHIUS objecit quod Huntleus non debet Accusator
et Judex esse in eâdem et suâ Caussâ, 2^do quod testes Rei

were to accompany the queen regent to France. Concluding that
it was not quite safe to leave Mackintosh at freedom, though he
found no just occasion for punishing him, yet he sought to deprive
him of life under colour of law, when in a court held in the Tol-
booth of Aberdeen, on 2nd August 1550, he was accused of
treachery against Huntly (who was then the queen's lieutenant in
the north). Those nominated on the assize were William Seton
of Meldrum, William Udny of that Ilk, Alexander Crawford of
Fedderet, John Forbes of Towy, Alexander Leslie of that Ilk,
William Cheyn of Strathloch, Gilbert Gray of Shives, Thomas
Chalmer of Cults, Thomas Meldrum of Iden, Alexander Chalmer
of Belnacraig, Patrick Cheyn of Essilmont, knight, Alexander
Con of Auchry, and John Seton of Disblair, all retainers of Huntly.
The witnesses brought forward were Donald McWilliam vic Dai
dui, servant of the late John Malcolmson aforesaid, beheaded at
Rothemurchus for the murder of Lauchlan laird of Mackintosh,
father of the accused: and the other witness, the aforesaid
Lauchlan, who, as Leslie says, was supposed to have suggested
and laid the plot for destroying William Mackintosh.

Mackintosh objected that Huntly ought not to be accuser and
judge in the same cause, and that his own: 2nd, That the