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[226]. Under extremity of suffering during the dearth, in September 1699, one David Chapman, belonging to Crieff, broke into a lockfast place, and stole some cheese, a sugar-loaf, and about four shillings sterling of money. His sole motive for the crime, as he afterwards pleaded, was the desire of relieving his family from the pains of want. Apprehended that day, he confessed the crime, and restored the spoil; yet, being tried by the commissioner of justiciary for the Highlands, he was condemned to death.
On a petition, the Privy Council commuted the sentence to scourging through the town of Perth, and banishment to the plantations.[[228]]
[227]. Published in 1702.
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[229]. Coltness Collections.
[230]. Polit. Works of A. Fletcher, edit. 1749, p. 85.