Culross Burgh election : 1766-1767 / spine title
Court of Session (Scotland)1767
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This item comprises legal papers in a dispute over the Culross council election of 1765, which both sides claimed to have involved bribery and corruption. Robert Geddes and George Law, moreover, claimed that James Spital/Spittal, Trades-counsellor, was abducted to prevent his attendance at the election: 'he was pulled from his horse, his mouth stopped, and himself dragged, with his face downwards, alongst some corn-ridges' to a barn where he was held until after the elction. The council was split between supporters of Robert Haldane of Gleneagles and Captain James Erskine to serve as M.P. and the papers here illustrate this power-struggle.
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[Edinburgh], 1767
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13p., 13p., 12p., 8p. ; 22 cm.
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Petition and complaint of Robert Geddes, First Merchant-Bailie of the borough... and of George Law, Treasurer of the said borough of Culross... 1766Answers for Baillies James Johnston of Sands and Robert Bald and Counsellors [sic] James Drysdale, James Campbell and others 1767Replies for Robert Geddes and George Law 1767Duplies for James Johnston of Sands 1767.
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CULLR/CUL
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English
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3451397