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commit any masterful reiving, theft or reset of theft, depredations open and avowed, fire-raising upon deadly feuds protected and maintained by their masters, that the landlords and bailies upon whose lands and in whose jurisdiction they dwell shall bring and present the persons complained upon before [Archibald Campbell, earl of Argyll], our sovereign lord's justice, or his deputes, to abide trial and underlie the law for the same, upon 15 days' warning to be made to them lawfully; and failing thereof, that the said landlords and bailies be indebted to satisfy the party harmed and to refund, content and pay to them their herships and hurts of their own proper goods and lands according to the value and quantity taken from the complainers, which shall be modified by oath of the party hurt, either before the lords of council and session or the justice or his deputes, whereupon execution shall pass both against the principals and sureties in the appropriate form; providing always that the landlords who have their lands lying in far highlands or borders, they making residence themselves in the inlands, and their tenants and inhabitants of their lands being of clans or dependants on chieftains and captains on the clans, whom the landlords are in no way able to command but only get their mails off them and no other service nor obedience, shall in no way be subjected to this act but in manner following, namely, they shall be held to direct their precepts of warning, obtain decreets against their tenants and denounce them to the horn and immediately after their denunciation that the said landlords raise letters by deliverance of the secret council and charge the chieftains and captains of the clans on whom their tenants depend and obey to take and apprehend the disobedient tenants and present them to the justice under the pain of rebellion; and in case the chieftains disobey, to cause denounce them to the horn, register the same and report the letters of horning, duly executed, endorsed and registered, to the secret council within the space of 40 days thereafter; wherein if the said landlords fail, they shall be subject to the former condition of this act. As also, in case the said landlords at any time hereafter rent or set tacks to any of the said disobedient highlanders or borderers in any their lands and omits to take sufficient caution for them, that they shall be answerable and obedient to our sovereign lord's laws, and specially that they shall obey and comply with the whole contents and effect of this present act. And that the said landlords and bailies concur, fortify and assist others in removing of all persons disobedient to the laws or fugitive therefrom out of their lands, rooms and possessions; and in case any refuse to concur to the effect aforesaid, being duly and lawfully required, in that case it shall be lawful to pursue the person refusing and his cautioner for redress of the damage sustained by the party hurt and the landlords and bailies of the disobedient person to have their relief of the persons refusing. And in case any person, landlord or bailie, receive or reset any person fugitive after the committing of the crime upon their lands, or stays or arrests them not whenever they pass through their bounds with any true men's goods reived or stolen, if the same comes in any way to their knowledge, or that it be tried that they might have stayed or withstood the said reives and oppressions (which knowledge and power of the overlords shall be tried by an assize), the masters, landlords or bailies, resetters of the offenders, or not staying and arresting them passing through their bounds as said is, shall be held to bring
