The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION. 315
No. II.
At the Coaurt at Whiitehall,
the 5th7 August, 1663.
GEORGIE CHRISTIAN, son and heir of William Christian, deceased, having
exhibited his complaint to his Majesty in Council, that his father, being at
a house of his in his Majesty's Isle of Man, was imprisoned by certain persons of that island, pretending themselves to be a Court of Justice; that he
was by them accused of high treason, pretended to be committed against
the Countess Dowager of Derby, in the year 1651; and that they thereupon
proceeded to judgment, and caused him to be put to death, notwithstanding
the Act of General Pardon and Indemnity, whereof he claimed the benefit:
and his appeal to his Majesty, and humbly imploring his Majesty's princely
compassion towards the distressed widow and seven fatherless children of
the deceased: His Majesty was graciously pleased, with the advice of his
Council, to order that Thomas Noris and Hugh Cannell, the two judges,
(by them in that island called Deemsters,) and Richard Stevenson, Robert
Calcott, and Richard Tyldesley, three of the members of the pretended Court
of Justice, and Henry Howell, deputy of the said island, should be forthwith
sent for, and brought up by a sergeant-at-arms here, before his Majesty in
Council, to appear and answer to such accusations as should be exhibited
against them; which said six persons being accordingly brought hither the
fifteenth day of July last, appointed for a full hearing of the whole business,
the Earl of'Derby then also summoned to appear, and the Lord Chief Justice of the Kinog's Bench, and the Lord Chief-Baron of his Majesty's Exchequer, with the King's Council, learned in the laws, required to be present,
and all the parties called in with their counsel and witnesses, after full
hearing of the matter on both sides, and the parties withdrawn, the said
judges being desired to deliver their opinion, did, in presence of the King's
Council, learned in the laws, declare that the Act of General Pardon and
Indemnity did, and ought to be understood to, extend to the Isle of Mann,
as well as into any other of his Majesty's dominions and plantations beyond
the seas; and that, being a publique General Act of Parliament, it ought to
have been taken notice of by the judges in the Isle of Mann; although it
had not been pleaded, and although there were no proclamations made
thereof. His Majesty being therefore deeply sensible of this violation of
his Act of General Pardon, whereof his Majesty hath always been-very tender, and doth expect and require that all his subjects in all his dominions
and plantations shall enjoy the full benefit and advantage of the same; and
having this day taken the business into further consideration, and all parties
called in and heard, did, by and with the advice of the Council, order, and
it is hereby ordered, that all persons any way concerned in the seizure of
the estate of the said William Christian, deceased, or instrumental in the
ejection of the widow and children out of their houses and fortune, do take
care that entire restitution is to be made of all the said estate, as well real
or personal, as also all damages sustained, with full satisfaction for all
profits by them received since the said estate hath been in their hands; and
that, whereas the said William Christian, deceased, was one of the two lives
remaining in an estate in Lancashire, that the detriment accruing by the
untimely death of the said William Christian therein, or in like cases, shall
be estimated, and in like manner fully repaired. That in regard of the great
trouble and charges the complainants have been at in pursuit of this business, ordered, that they do exhibit to this Board a true account, upon oath,
of all expenses and damages by them sustained in the journies of themselves
and witnesses, and of all other their charges in the following of this
business.