Verdict
Follows the tenor of the verdict of the assyse as to
Agnes Muffat:--
Att Stonehavine the 28: March nynty nyne, (1699) the assyse
having received and chosen Alexander Hog in Newtoune, to
be yr. chancellor, they all in one voice ffinds and declares
Agnee Muffat, spouse to James Johnston, fugitive thief,
guilty of theft both by her owne confessione and probatione
led agt. her the sd. day : And also that they find her guilty
by open voice and common fame of ane evill report this many
years bygone, Qrfor the sd. chancellor hes subt. thir prests.
sic subt.
Alex. Hog. (signed)
Sentence
Stonehavine the first day of April 1699. In presence of
James Keith, Sheriff-Depute of Kincardine, sitting in judgement
in a fenced court holden within the Tolbooth of Stonehavine.
The said day, for so meikle as it is found by the assyse
on the twenty-eighth of March last past, that the said Agnes
Muffat, spouse to the said James Johnston, is guilty of
theft both by her own confession and probation led against
her, and also is guilty by open voice and common fame of
ane evil report these many years bygone. Therefore the said
Sheriff-Depute, by the mouth of John Frayser, dempster of
court, decerns and adjudges the said Agnes Muffat to
be taken to the Gallowhill, upon Monday next the third of
April instant, betmixt the hours of ane and four in the
afternoon, and there to be hanged on a gibbet till she be
dead, and all her moveable goods and gear to be escheat
which is pronounced for doom. Whereupon the Procurator-Fiscal
takes instruments. (signed) J. Keith. The said day, the
said Sherriff-Depute appoints the body to be buried at the
Gallows foot after they are dead.
(signed) J. Keith.
