Another phrase from Scottish Court of Session -Completed

[goldie61]

I think the ‘squiggle’ after ‘Pain of Rebellion’ must be ‘etc’
I have looked this up, and found the full phrase is usually ‘Under Pain of rebellion and putting (him) to the horn’.

Can anyone tell me what it means!
I think a ‘pain’ was a fine, but ‘putting to the horn’?

Sounds nasty!

Many thanks

[Gadget]

under pain of  = under risk or threat of

[Gadget]

put to the horn:

Letters of horning (Scots law): a document (i.e., letters) issued by civil authorities that publicly denounce a person as a rebel. The document was issued against persons who had not paid their debts.

Historically, the documents would be announced by three blasts of a horn, and the documents themselves came to be known as "letters of horning". A person who was denounced in these documents was described as having been "put to the horn".

From Wiki.

GR will probably be able to give you a more thorough definition.

[GR2]

Gadget has it right. There are registers of hornings in the case of those who did not pay up. Being registered opened you up to imprisonment or seizure of goods.

[goldie61]

Many thanks Gadget and GR2.
What knowledgeable people!