Court Reference 1667

[john.pirret]

I am looking for someone to assist to Decipher a court reference, Scottish writing dated 1667, as I believe it is my ancestors..

[Seoras]

Put the image on the thread John.Don't put the whole thing at once,bit at a time.Crop it into sections,hit reply to this post,you will see attach photograph or image ,left click will bring up browse,click browse and that should bring your files up,choose the one with your doc in and open and post.As I say better to do a bit at a time to give the deciphering experts a chance.

George.

[john.pirret]

There is two pages. I will post the first paragraph

[john.pirret]

This is the other part of page 1.

[john.pirret]

Page 1

[john.pirret]

Page 2

[john.pirret]

This is the last part, I had John pirrets from Kilsyth, Hie Gartshore or East Gartshore, and I beleive this has Gartshore mentioned, but I cant decipher it. I would love to know what it say,s

[Archivos]

Wow, that's some handwriting.  Nonetheless, it seems to be written in pretty much the standard form as part 1 begins with

The testament dative and inventar of the guids geir [and?]
soummes of mony quhilk present to umquhill John Pirret in eister gartshoir

You can read about Scottish handwriting at www.scottishhandwriting.com and they also have a section on Testaments (though concentrating on the 18th Century, rather than the period you are looking at!).

I'll have a closer look to see what names and places I can pick out.

[john.pirret]

Thanks for looking at the Court reference, I looked on the Scottish handwriting site, but the only bit I can make out is the end Signed by Reid.
I have reference to A John Pirret going back to 1600's (also Late 1500's)they all came from around Kilsyth and Campsie area, Kirkintiloch.