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 TWELFTH "PARLIAMENT. V. of Junij. i 59 x. 30- hundreth, fourfcore ninezeires; Anent the bringing ofallpackes of Englijb claitli, haill, un-broken-up the Cuftome houfe, and felling diereof, in maner conteined thereintill , inallpoynts, artickles aridciaul r*y^7iwfpecifiedindiefame, with diis addition : That na maner of perfones , take upon hand , to houfe, hide, or conceale ony maner o{ Englijb guddes , ather cummand be Sea or land , in onie Burgh or fu b urbe of thisRealme, under the pain; ofconfifcationofall the guddes, fwa hid and concealed, in defraud of the dew Cuftome, quhair-ever the famin can be apprehended. And in-cafe the famin be riot apprehended awners to make the availl thereof foordi-cummand to his Majeilie as efcheitt , after tryal tane there! 1 r I as efleiris: And aff.va for die better execution, to ordaine ilk Cuftomer, to fearch within the bounds of his office, all maner of houfes and buithes , alfweill to Burgh as to land , and to efcheit , confiske and in- tromette with all maner of uncuftomed Englt/b guddes, and all Englijb claithes unfealed , and gif neede beis, to make open durres, and uther lock-fall lumes, and to ufe his Majefties keyes to that effed : And in-cafe onie perfones refill be force, to make open and patent durres to the faid cuftomer, for the effed forefaid; The peribnes refifters, to be under the like danger, as the committers of the deforcementes, and to be punifh- ed in their perfones and guddes, conforme to the ade maid thereanent : Ordaining alfo the Proved , Baillies and Ma^i urates of ilk Burgh, gif neede beis, to concur and affift , with the faidis Cuftomers , in execution hereof, fwa oft as they fall be required thereto. 130. t^Anent ratificationes pajl in this prefent 'Parliament. THE Kingis Majeftie, and Eftaites of this prefent Parliament , decernis and declaris , that the ratifi- cation of onie particular richtes, infeftmenres, tackes, penfiones, or utheris writtes and evidentes , granted to quhat-fum-ever perfones in this prefent Parliament : Sail nawaies prejudge, hurt,inor derogate to the particular richtes of uther parties: Notwithftanding they be nor ratified nor confirmed at this time , be his Hienefle , and his faidis Eftaites. AND Mairover, it is ftatute and ordained, be OUR SOVERAINE LORD, and his Eftaites, in this prefent Parliament : That albeit findrie ratifications be pad and pronunced in this prefent Parliament, in the favour of findrie of the Eftaites, or private perfones, upon fimple Articles : As alfwa fum favoure grant- ed to the vaflalles of perfones forefaulted m the fame Parliament, and to the Burgefles and inhabitantes of Edinburgh, being infelt in landes, or annual-rentes , annalied to them , be onie of the faidis perfons , now forefaulted, or their predeceflbures, under reverfion : zit fall not the fame ratificationesberegiftratinthe Parliament buik, nor have effed without the fignatoures of infeftmentes , or articles granted or ratified , be fubfcrived be his Hienefle Thefaurer , or his ticket fent to the Clerk of Regifter , teftifiand the Thefaurer to be fatisfied , that his Majefties commodity may be refpeded , as apperteinis : And that betuixt and the firft day oiAuguft nixt-to-cum : utherwaies the faidis ratincationes to be null, as gif they had not bene granted, nor pronunced in Parliament : And that the trew rentallcs of things ratified to Burrowes, Colleges, or Hofpi- talles, be prefented to his Hienefle and his Councell, betuixt ana 1 the faid firft day of ^Auguft nixt-to-cum : With a declaration how die famin is imployed, utherwaies the fame ratification to be null. 131. i^Sient the production ofrentalles and f ewes. FORSAMEIKLE As in our SOVERAINE LORDIS umquhile deareft Mothers time, the thridesofall benefices within this Real me, was be Ad appoynted to the fu dentation of her Majefties houfe, andofherHienesSucceflbures, fa farre as happened to reft Trie thereof, by the fuftentation of the Minifterie, within this Realme. And fik-like, OUR faid SOVERAINE LORDIS, his faidis umquhill deareft Mother, and uthers his Hienes Predeceflours of gud memorie, hes founded, confirmed, and augmented diverfe Hofpitalities within this Realme, with the giftes and donations theirto , quhilkis his Ma- jeftie is willing to dand for ever, without onie hurt or derogation : as alfwa in the lait Parliament. halden at 'Edinburgh, in the monethof J 'ulij, diezeirofGod, anethoufand, five hundreth, fourefcorefevinzeires; The haill temporal Ecclefiadical Lands of his Realme, are annexed to his Hienes Croun, and his Majedie ordained to have prefent pofleffion theirof, payand to thelyfe-renterspennieforpennie, and boll for boll. And becaufe his Hienes cannot underdand quhat courfe to follow-out, anent the premifles, and cannot knaw perfitelie quhat the faidis thrids will extend to, nor quhat will be the rent of the faidis Hofpitalles , nor quhat prefent commodities will fall to his Hienes, be the faid act of annexation, nor how the Minifterie of this Realme, fall be dewlie provided, according to his gud will , minde and intention , without his Majeftie and I his Hienes Commiflioners, to be appoynted to that effed, have the ficht of the rentalles of all Bilhopprickes, I Abbacies, Priories, Proveftries, Parfonages, Vicarages, Altarages, Chaplanaries , Templaries , and utheris ) Benefices : And of all Maifon-dieus, and Hofpitalles, within this Realme , and of the rentes thereof , foun- jdationes of the famin: And of all thinges founded , given and mortified thereto; And of all infeftmentes, j tackes, titles, richtes and fecurities , maid to quhat-fum-ever perfon or perfones , anent quhat-fum-ever Kirk- landes, Temple-landes , teindes, and utheris Ecclefiadical rentes and pofTefliones quhat-fum-ever. There- fore it is datute and ordained , be his Hienefle , with advife ol his Majefties Eftaites , in this prefent Parlia- ment ; That all and findrie perfones within this Realme, as they fall be charged thereto, in fpecial or in general, I be open Proclamationes , at the head Burrowes of the Schires quhairin they dwell ; compeir, bring, and produce