2 Aug 1766Election contest
Petitioners sought to have a borough election nullified on the ground that it was conducted in a corrupt fashion by counsellors who were bribed by Robert Alexander, a candidate for the local parliament seat.
Documents in this case (12)
- Martin — Answers, 18 Dec 1765
- Respondent's Proof 1766
- Alexander — Objections, 24 Jun 1766
- Martin — Petition, 3 Jul 1766
- Ramsay — Petition, 14 Jul 1766
- Answers 1766
- Martin — Petition, 23 Jul 1766
- Ramsay — Answers, 28 Jul 1766
- Peter Ramsay, Andrew Wilson, John Brown, Robert Dick, James Nairn, Colin Fowler, and John Henderson v. Thomas Martin and others — Memorial, 10 Dec 1766
- Peter Ramsay, Andrew Wilson, and others v. Thomas Martin and others — Memorial, 12 Dec 1766
- Peter Ramsay, Andrew Wilson, Robert Dick, John Brown, James Nairn, Colin Fouler, and John Henderson v. Thomas Martin, James Balleardie, William Morison, William Tait, James Martin junior, James Martin senior, William Martin, A… — Answers, 14 Jan 1767
- Ramsay — Pittenweem Election, 19 Jan 1767
People involved
- Peter Ramsay — Pursuer
- Andrew Wilson — Pursuer
- John Brown — Pursuer
- Robert Dick — Pursuer
- James Nairn — Pursuer
- Colin Fowler — Pursuer
- John Henderson — Pursuer
- Thomas Martin — Defender
- William Morison — Defender
- James Ballardie — Defender
- William Tait — Defender
- James Martin Jr. — Defender
- James Martin Sr. — Defender
- William Martin — Defender
- Alexander Anderson — Defender
- Robert Ramsay — Defender
- David Lowson — Defender
- David Bowman — Defender
- Robert Stevenson — Defender
- Alexander Hamilton — Defender
- James Thomson — Defender
- William Melvill — Defender
- Thomas Davidson — Defender
- Thomas Watson — Defender
- James Laing — Defender
- Thomas Ballardie — Defender
- John Durkie — Defender
- George Cokburne Haldane, of Gleneagles — Advocate for Pursuer
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville — Advocate for Pursuer
- Sir Ilay Campbell, Lord Succoth, 1st Baronet of Succoth — Advocate for Pursuer
- David Rae — Advocate for Defender
- John MacLaurin, Lord Dreghorn — Advocate for Defender
- Robert Alexander, of Boghall and Blackhouse — Defender
- William Alexander, of Blackhouse — Defender
- Thomas Horsburgh Sr. — Defender
- Thomas Horsburgh Jr. — Defender
- Laurence Aitken — Defender
- John Tod — Defender
- Sir Henry Erskine, of Alva and Clackmannan, Baronet — Named in case documents
- Major-General John Scott, of Balcomie — Named in case documents
- Sir John Anstruther, of Anstruther, Baronet — Named in case documents
Places
- Pittenweem (principal)
Petitioners sought to have a borough election nullified on the ground that it was conducted in a corrupt fashion by counsellors who were bribed by Robert Alexander, a candidate for the local parliament seat.
Published Reports
Sir David Dalyrymple of Hailes, Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from 1766 to 1791 (1826), pg. 118