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to fulfil, obtemper and obey his Majeſties ſaid determination, They receiving lawful and perfect ſecurities, conform to the tenour of his Majeſties Commiſſion foreſaid; And alſo receiving real payment of that which ſhall be ordained be his Majeſty, before they denude themſelves, either of right or Poſſeſſion, of the ſaids Few-mails, and Teinds, And that, at, or within ſuch time or times, as his Majeſty ſhall appoint, be his ſaid determination. And for the more ſecurity, All the ſaids perſons and every one of them are content, and conſents, that thir preſents, with his Majeſties determination to follow thereupon, ſhall be Regiſtrat in the books of Council and Seſſion, and ſhall have the ſtrength and force of a Decreet of the Lords thereof, with execution to paſs thereupon, in form as effeirs; And the Horning to paſs on a ſimple charge of Ten dayes allennerly; And to that effect makes and conſtituts

Their procuratours to compear and conſent to the Regiſtration hereof in manner foreſaid, In Witneß whereof (written be William Ferguſon Writter in Edinburgh All the ſaids perſons have ſubſcribed thir preſents, with their hands, Likeas his Sacred Majeſty, in token of His gracious acceptation hereof hath ſubſcribed the ſame with His Majeſties hand,days, year, and places foreſaids, Before thir Witneſſes &c. Sic ſubscribitur; Auphn, Lennox, Hamiltoun, Marr, Mareſchal, Mortoun, Rothes, Menteith, Eglinglom, for my ſelf and my Son, Nithiſdaile, Wintoun, Haddingtoun, Linlithgow, Buchan, Murray, Home, Roxburgh, Buccleugh, Lauderdale, for my ſelf and my Son, Seaforth , Galloway, Annandale, Abercorne, Kellie, Aire, William Cuninghame, Boyd, Lindſay, Binning, as Curatour for my Lord Lindſay, Conſents, Balmerinoch, Cowper, Haly-rood-houſe, Cranſtoun, Carnegie, Loudoun, Spynie, Lindores, Gray, Thomas Bruce, for the Teinds of Cowper, Ochiltry, Traquair, Drumlangrig, John Stewart, Andrew Ker, Henrie Areſkin, Sir John Hamiltoun, Annabel Counteſs of Lothian, Curatrix to Anna Ker, Conſents, Sir George Elphingſtoun, Colin Cambel, Fiar of Glenurquhie, for my ſelf, and taking Burden for my Father, and Alexander Campbel my Nephew, Sempil as Procuratour for my Lord Sempil, Robert Innes of that Ilk, James Livingſtoun, Sir Robert Gordoun, Masſter George Fletcher, Archibald Campbel, Robert Dalzel, James Carmichael, James Lockhart, Sir Alexander Gordoun, Patrick Home Strauchan, Hay, Lundie, George Bruce, James Bailie, Richard Balfour of Denmylne, Maſrer Patrck Lindſay, Sir John Campbel of Calder.

Written on the back of the Submiſſion above written. Superſcribed by
his MAJESTY.

CHARLES R.

WEE CHARLES, By the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland; Defender of the Faith &c. Prorogats the Submiſſion within written, with Our Decreet and Determination to be given be Us thereupon, unto the last day of December 1629. years, Betwixt and the which day, or any time within the ſame, it ſhall be Lawful to Us, to give forth Our Determi-nation upon the ſaid Submiſſion: And Wills and conſents that this Prorogation be inſert in the Books of Council and Seſſion, ad futuram rei memoriam . And to that effect, makes and Conſtituts

Our Procuratours, With Power to them, or any of them, to compear for Us before the Lords of Our Council and Seſſion, and in Our Name to conſent to the regiſtration of this preſent Prorogation In Witneſs whereof, Wee have Signed thir preſents with Our Hand, at Our Palace of White-hall, the 21 day of May, the year of God 1628 Before thir Witneſſes, William Earl of Menteith Preſident of Our Privy Council of SCOTLAND, Sir William Alexander of Menſtrie Knight, Our Principal Secretary, Sir James Skeen of Curriehil Knight, Preſident of Our Colledge of Juſtice, Sir Archibald Atchifon of Glencairn, alſo Our Secretary, and Sir Thomas Hope of Craighal Knight, Our Advocat, Master Alexander Burnet Servitour to the Advocat, Writter of the premiſſes.

At WHITE-HALL the 14. Day of
May 1628. years.

THE WHICH DAY, In preſence of me Notar Publick, and Witneſſes under-written, Maſter William Elphingſtoun Cup-bearer to his Majeſty, as Procuratour for the Conſtituents within-written, Compeared in preſence of his Sacred Majeſty, and in all Humility, and upon his Knees, Reſigned, and Surrendered in his Majeſties hands, Ad perpetuam remanentiam, the Right, and Title of Superiority, of all and ſundry Lands, Baronies, Milnes, Woods, Fiſhings, Towers, Fortalices, Mannour-places, and other Pertinents, pertaining to whatſoever Erections, and Temporalities of Benefices, of whatſoever Name or Deſignation, the ſame be of, To the which the Conſtituents, or any of them within-written, have, or may pretend right of Superiority, and which are holden of them, as Lords of Erections, be whatſoever his Majeſties Subjects, Reſerving, and under the Proviſions, and Reſervations within ſpecified. WHICH RESIGNATION, his Majeſty accepted with a ſpecial Proviſo, that the ſame ſhould be without preju-

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