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PRINTED COPIES OF CAITHNESS LAW CASES

 BOOK NUMBER 1 CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING CASES: -

 CLC1/1     Petition of John Sinclair of Ulbster.
 23 June 1718.      2pp.

CLC1/2     Answers for Patrick Sinclair of Brims, to the petition of John Sinclair of Ulbster. 
 27 June 1718.       3pp.

CLC1/3     The petition of Patrick Dunbar of Bowermaden, Sir William Dunbar of Hemprigs, Sir James Sinclair of May, Sir James Sinclair of Dunbeath, Captain William Innes of Sandside, George Murray of Clarden, James Sinclair of Duren, James Sutherland of Risgill, and David Sinclair of Southdun,      Barons and Freeholders in the Shire of Caithness.
 5 February 1741.      6pp.

CLC1/4.     Minutes, Dunbar of Bowermaden, Sir James Sinclair of Mey,      Sir Willaim Dunbar, and other Freeholders of the Shire of Caithness, pursuers, against, Manson of Brigend, Sinclair      of Stircock and others, Defenders.   
12 February 1741.    5pp.

CLC1/5         Minutes, Dunbar of Bowermaden, Sir James Sinclair of Mey and      others, Pursuers, against Manson of Bridgend, Sinclair of Stircock and others, Defenders.
26 February 1741.      6pp.

LC1/6  Petition of George Sinclair of Ulbster and John
Munro of      Craigton.
29 June 1742.       31pp.

CLC1/7         Answers for Mrs Francis Sinclair, Brother to the Earl of      Caithness, Pursuer; to the Petition of George Sinclair of      Ulbster, and John Monro of Craigtown, Defenders.
 17 January 1743.   34pp.

CLC1/8     Petition of George Sinclair of Ulbster.
 9 July 1743.       4pp.

CLC1/9     State of the Facts in the Process at the Instance of  Mr Francis Sinclair, Brother of the Earl of Caithness.
17 December 1743.     8pp.

CLC1/10     Abstract of the Disposition granted by George Earl of Caithness, to John Campbell of Glenorchy, the 8th of October 1672; and of the Letter of Reversion, relative thereto, granted by Glenorchy.
 8 October 1672.   3pp.

CLC1/11     Petition of Sir Patrick Dunbar of Bowermaden, Sir James Sinclair of Mey, Captain William Innes of Sandside, and James Sinclair of Duren, Freeholders standing upon the Roll      of Electors of a Commissioner to serve in Parliament for the Shire of Caithness.
28 November 1743.   2pp.
 

CLC1/12     Memorial for George Sinclair of Ulbster, Defender against Mr Francis Sinclair, Trustee for his brother the Earl of Caithness, Pursuer, containing an addition to the State of the Facts given in betwixt the said Parties, and the Short State of the Question resulting now agreed upon      by both sides.
 9 January 1744.    6pp.

CLC1/13     Answers for Mr Francis Sinclair, Brother to the Earl of Caithness, Pursuer to the Memorial of George Sinclair of Ulbster, and others, Defenders.
13 January 1744.   6pp.

CLC1/14     Answers for George Sinclair of Ulbster, to the Petition of Mr Francis Sinclair, Brother-german to the Earl of Caithness.
13 February 1744.   2pp.

CLC1/15     Petition of George Sinclair of Ulbster.
28 February 1744.    4pp.

CLC1/16     Petition of George Sinclair of Ulbster.
23 July 1744.  12pp.

CLC1/17     Copy of the several Clauses contained in the Disposition      granted by Dame Jean Stewart Lady Murkle, to the present Earl of Caithness her Grandson, bearing date the 18th of May 1692, wherein the Disponee's Name occur, which in every Part      of the Deed is filled up with a different Hand and Ink from      that of the writer of the Disposition itself.
18 May 1692.   1p.

CLC1/18     Answers for Mr Francis Sinclair, Brother-german of Alexander      Earl of Caithness to the petition of George Sinclair of Ulbster. 
1 November 1744.   4pp.

CLC1/19     Petition of Mr Francis Sinclair, Brother-german to Alexander      Earl of Caithness.   
24 July 1744.   6pp.

CLC1/20     Answers for George Sinclair of Ulbster, Defender to the      petition of Mr Francis Sinclair Trustee for his Brother the Earl of Caithness, Pursuer.
31 November 1744.    21pp.

CLC1/21     Answers for George Sinclair of Ulbster, Defender, to the       Additional-Petition of Mr Francis Sinclair, Trustee for his      Brother the Earl of Caithness, Pursuer.
1 December 1744.    25pp.

CLC1/22     Additional Petition for Mr Francis Sinclair, Brother-german to Alexander Earl of Caithness.
13 November 1744.    8pp.

CLC1/23     Depositions of Witnesses, taken by an Act and Commission on      adjusted Interrogatories relative to the Possession of      George Earl of Caithness, Son to Mr Francis Sinclair, of the Earldom of Caithness, and to Glenorchy's abstracting the Charter-chest.   
3 January 1724.   4pp.

CLC1/24     Copia Literae exonerationis & remissionis Joannis Comitis de Breadalbane, ejusque confanguineorum & clientium.
 4pp (Latin text).

CLC1/25     MS. copy of Exoneration and Acquittal of John, Earl of      Breadalbane and his Relatives and Dependants.   (Translation of number 24, previous).
12 August 1683.      6pp.