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Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of this realm convened in parliament, ordains an act to be made in this present parliament, making mention that forasmuch as his majesty's late dearest father of renowned memory in his parliament held at Edinburgh, 28 June 1617, with advice of the estates then convened, dissolved from the crown all and whole the abbacy of Fearn, with all and sundry lands, lordships, woods, mills, multures, fishings, as well superiority as property thereof, advocation, donation and right of patronage of kirks, chaplainries and altarages, and with all and sundry feu ferms, fruits, rents, kanes, customs and other duties of the said abbacy of Fearn wheresoever they lie; and to that effect retreated, annulled and abrogated the act of annexation of the temporality of benefices to the crown, made in the year of God 1587, in so far as may be extended or comprehend the said abbacy of Fearn, fruits and rents thereof. Likewise his majesty, with consent foresaid, of new united, annexed and incorporated all and whole the said abbacy and monastery of Fearn, house and precinct thereof, with all lands, lordships, mills, multures, fishings, as well superiority as property thereof, teinds, teind sheaves, advocation, donation and right of patronage of kirks, chaplainries, prebendaries and altarages with all feu ferms, annualrents, anniversaries, fruits, rents, kanes, customs and other duties pertaining thereto, declaring the name and memory thereof to be utterly extinguished and to be united and incorporated in and with the bishopric of Ross, to remain as a part of the patrimony thereof as the rest of the patrimony of the said bishopric without any other special denomination, to the effect that Patrick [Lindsay], then bishop of Ross and his successors may peaceably possess the said abbacy as being a proper part of the said bishopric, likewise his majesty ratified the several gifts mentioned in the said act; and his majesty calling to mind that by his highness's letters of gift and provision granted under the great seal of the date the [...] day of [...] last, his majesty had given, granted and conveyed during all the days of the lifetime of a reverend father in God, John, now bishop of Ross, the said bishopric of Ross and abbacy of Fearn annexed thereto with all and sundry lands, lordships, woods, mills, multures, fishings, as well spirituality as temporality, property as superiority, advocation, donation and right of patronage of kirks, chaplainries, prebendaries and altarages, feu ferms, annualrents, kanes, customs and duties pertaining to the said abbacy, to remain with the said reverend father John, bishop of Ross, and with the bishopric thereof as a part of the patrimony of the same in all time coming, as the said act and provision made to the said reverend father at length bears. Therefore his majesty, with advice of the said estates, ordains an act to be made in this present parliament ratifying and approving, likewise his highness, with consent foresaid, by this act and tenor of the said act ratifies and approves in favour of the said reverend father John, bishop of Ross and his successive bishops of Ross, the said act of dissolution, abrogation, new union and incorporation of the said abbacy of Fearn, spirituality and temporality, property and superiority thereof, to the said bishopric of Ross, with all and sundry former acts, gifts, provisions and rights made and granted of the same either in favour of the said Patrick, sometime bishop of Ross, the late David [Lindsay], bishop of Ross or any other of their predecessors, together with the said gift and provision made and granted in favour of the said John, now bishop of Ross of the said abbacy of Fearn, property and superiority thereof, spirituality and temporality of the same, and all that has followed or may follow thereupon. And his majesty and estates foresaid decree and declare that the several acts of dissolution, abrogation, new union and incorporation and other former and posterior gifts and ratifications made and granted of the said abbacy are and shall be sufficient grounds, rights and titles whereby the said John, now bishop of Ross and his successive bishops thereof may hold, enjoy and possess the said abbacy or monastery of Fearn, with all and sundry lands, lordships, mills, multures, fishings, as well spirituality as temporality thereof, as well property as superiority of the same, advocation, donation and right of patronage of kirks, chaplainries, prebendaries and altarages, feu ferms, fruits, rents, kanes, customs and duties of the said abbacy, to remain and abide inseparably in all time coming with the said John, bishop of Ross and his successive bishops of Ross, and with the benefice and bishopric thereof united and annexed thereto, likewise and in the same manner as if the same had never been annexed to the crown or as if the same had been specially excepted and reserved out of the said annexation, and as if the said abbacy, spirituality and temporality thereof, had been properly a part of the said bishopric at the time of the foundation and erection thereof, and as if the same had never been a separate or distinct benefice by itself, to the which his majesty and estates foresaid by this act fully consent and agree and ordain this act to be sufficient warrant for making an act in the said parliament.