Complex sentence: On the 19th December of the year 1601, William Cuninghame of Towerlands was tried on a charge of treason, his brother, Alexander, with a party of hired soldiers, had taken "violent possession of the house of Cuninghamehead, in March, 1600".
Split into simpler sentences: On the 19th December of the year 1601, William Cuninghame of Towerlands was tried on a charge of treason. His brother, Alexander, with a party of hired soldiers, had taken "violent possession of the house of Cuninghamehead, in March, 1600".