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The auld Laird of Gadgirth, elder, leaving tutors to his oye, whom he appointed to succeed to his lands, they sought the bairn to be delivered to them; which was refused, because his father had left tutors testamentars to him, and so, albeit the tutors left by the guidsir would fall the administrators of the Jands and goods coming from him to the bairns, yet the keeping of his persoit pertained to the tutors appointed by his father.