The Lords, by interlocutor, decerned them competent judges to proceed against Mr William Crichton, priest of St Giles’s kirk, accused before them for baratry; because, as was alleged, he impetrate the Bailie of Dunkeld in Rome without license of the Queen or Governor, contrary to the act of Parliament; notwithstanding he alleged he ought not to answer before them, by reason that he was clerk, and a kirkman, and the Lords were but temporal judges. The Abbot of Paisley was his contrary party, and the Queen’s Advocate, and others, dissented to the interlocutor.
[1548] Mor 7322
Bailii
Scotland
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Updated: 09 January 2022; Ref: scu.558090