The Council took this matter up in high style, and dealt with the
offending parties in strict terms of the statutes which they had broke.
The young husband lost his interest _jure mariti_; the young wife hers
_jure relictæ_. The former was fined in £500 Scots, and the latter in a
thousand merks, for their clandestine marriage. Further, for contempt
of the Council, the young wife was fined in a thousand merks, to be
paid to Home of Plendergast. Ninewells and Hilton suffered amercement
respectively in 1000 and 2000 merks, the former sum to be paid to
Plendergast. The young couple were, moreover, to suffer three months’
imprisonment in Edinburgh Castle.--_P. C. R._
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[Sidenote: 1678.