Sir George Mackenzie, king's advocate, of Rosehaugh [electronic resource] : his life and times 1636(?)-1691 . and tending so much to secure our peaceable suUjectis; and you being in theexecution of that imployment at so much paines, and your bench being by its lateconstitution filled with persons of extraordinarie abilities and breeding, wee havethought fitt at this tyme to assure you of our firme resolution to owne you andthat our Court in the administration of justice to our people, and that wee will punishsuch as by injureing you asperse our authority and poyson our people. Andparticularly
Sir George Mackenzie, king's advocate, of Rosehaugh [electronic resource] : his life and times 1636(?)-1691 . and tending so much to secure our peaceable suUjectis; and you being in theexecution of that imployment at so much paines, and your bench being by its lateconstitution filled with persons of extraordinarie abilities and breeding, wee havethought fitt at this tyme to assure you of our firme resolution to owne you andthat our Court in the administration of justice to our people, and that wee will punishsuch as by injureing you asperse our authority and poyson our people. Andparticularly wee doe thank you for your proceedings against Mr. James Mitchell,that enemy of humane society, these who lessen that cryme or insinuat anyreproach against these who were interested in that process as judges or witnessesbeing chargeable with the blood which they encourage to spill upon such occasions,and so wee bid you farewell. Given at our Court at Windsor Castle, the 13th day ofJuly, 1679, ^^d of our reigne the 31 year. By his Majesties command. Signed Lauderdale.• State Trials, \o\. vi. MACKENZIE AS LORD ADVOCATE 147 them by a fofLjcd remission, which was scarce pia fraus,only it was Ihou^^lit such roiihris and enejnics to mankindand IniJiuvi society deseived to he hunted and caiij^ht,as we do with wild beasts, by nets and all xwcaw:^, per fas etnefas. Poor Mitchell was an enemy to human society, andper nefas he perished.^ While the year 1678 saw, in the case of Mitchell, anindelible stain upon the ermine of Scottish justice, it alsosaw the publication, by Mackenzie, of a book whichbecame the manual of criminal law in Scotland for ahundred and thirty years. Thus Mr. Taylor Innes describesMackenzies Laws and Customs of Scotland in We must remember, however, that, as re^^ardstorture, and the law of hi^h-treason, the former wasabolished and the latter was amended, two years afterScotland ceased to be an independent kingdom by theUnion of 1707. T
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