Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the claim of William Earl of March, heretable sherriff of the Shire of Peebles, and Lord of the regality of Newlands and Lintoun, and heretable justiciary within the bounds of the said regality, made and entered, pursuant to an act, of the 20th year of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for taking away and abolishing the here "tabel jurisdictions, in that part of Great Britain called "Scotland, and for making satisfaction to the proprietors "thereof, &c.".