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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Abercromby, Petitioner
Date: 26 February 1698
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Abercromby, the notary, who had acknowledged his prevarication in giving up Bargenie's contract of wadset for a little money, as mentioned 5th January 1698, [1ord Bargeny against Kennedy and Ferguson;] and having been sentenced to stand at the Tron, between eleven and twelve, and have his ears nailed thereto, he intercedes to have the sentence commuted to banishment, and he would enact himself never to return without license, both under the certification of a pecuniary mulct and that he should undergo the foresaid ignominious punishment.
The Lords granted his request; but deprived him of his office of notary, and declared him infamous, and incapable of any public trust.
