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Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, ratifies and approves the charter and infeftment made and granted by his majesty's late dearest father of worthy memory, for himself and as father, administrator and governor to the late Henry, prince of Scotland and Wales, duke of Rothesay, Albany, Cornwall and York, and stewart of Scotland etc., his majesty's eldest son for the time and who was therein designed Henry, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick, lord Ardmannock, baron of the barony of Renfrew and prince and stewart of Scotland, under the great seal of the date at Edinburgh, 16 March 1610, in favour of his majesty's right trusty cousin Archibald [Campbell], earl of Argyll, lord Campbell and Lorne etc., in liferent and of his majesty's right trusty cousin and councillor Archibald, lord Lorne, his son, in fee, his male heirs and of tailzie specified in the said charter and infeftment under the conditions, reservations, provisions and restrictions therein mentioned, of the earldom, lordship and barony of Argyll, comprehending all and sundry the lands, lordships, baronies, castles, towers, fortalices, mills, woods, forests, fishings, offices, privileges, casualties, patronages and others therein specified proceeding upon the resignation of the said Archibald, earl of Argyll, containing a new gift with supplement of all defects and imperfections with the precept and instrument of sasine following thereupon, together with the ratification and renunciation made and granted by the said Archibald, earl of Argyll, of the date 11 March 1631, whereby and for the causes onerous contained therein the said Archibald, earl of Argyll renounced and discharged in favour of the said Archibald, lord Lorne, his male heirs and of tailzie above-specified, the said Archibald, earl of Argyll's liferent, right and title and all other right and title competent or that might be competent to him of the lands, baronies, mills, woods, fishings, offices, patronages, superiorities and others particularly and generally mentioned in the said charter and infeftment and of his whole other lands, teinds, possessions, rents, and estate within the kingdom of Scotland and the whole provisions, restrictions and conditions conceived in favour of the said Archibald, earl of Argyll, contained in the said infeftment of fee made to the said Archibald, lord of Lorne of the said earldom, lordship and barony of Argyll, or contained in whatsoever infeftments, rights and securities conceived in favour of the said Archibald, lord Lorne of or concerning whatsoever other lands, superiorities, rooms, possessions, teinds or others which pertained to the said Archibald, earl of Argyll, within the said kingdom of Scotland, containing sundry other clauses therein mentioned in all points, articles and clauses therein contained, after the forms and tenors thereof; which charter, precept and instrument of sasine, ratification and renunciation foresaid were all produced in parliament and seen by his majesty and estates of this present parliament; and in respect thereof his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, declares, decrees and ordains this present ratification of the said charter, precept, instrument of sasine, ratification and renunciation to be as sufficient and effectual in all respects as if the same were at length and word by word inserted and engrossed herein, dispensing with the not inserting thereof in this present ratification. As also his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, finds, declares, statutes and ordains the foresaid infeftment to be a sufficient, valid and lawful right and security to the said Archibald, lord Lorne and his foresaids, for possessing and enjoying of the whole lands, lordships, baronies, castles, towers, fortalices, offices, patronages and others specified in the foresaid charter in all time coming. Moreover, forasmuch as by the foresaid infeftment of fee of the said earldom, lordship and barony of Argyll the said Archibald, lord Lorne is infeft in the heritable offices of sheriffships of the sheriffdoms of Argyll and Tarbert, and that it is perfectly known to his majesty and the estates of this present parliament that the said two sheriffdoms lie contiguous and that the burgh of Inveraray lying within the said sheriffdom of Argyll is the most fit place to be the head burgh of both the said sheriffdoms for holding of the head courts thereof, and that there is no fit and proper place within the said sheriffdom of Tarbert for holding of the same courts, and that in respect thereof the head courts and other particular diets of the said sheriffdoms have for the most part in all time bygone been held at the said burgh of Inveraray, as well concerning the inhabitants of the said sheriffdom of Tarbert as the inhabitants of the said sheriffdom of Argyll, therefore his majesty, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, has united and by this act unites the said sheriffdom of Tarbert to the foresaid sheriffdom of Argyll, and ordains both the said sheriffdoms of Argyll and Tarbert hereby united as said is to be called in all time coming the sheriffdom of Argyll. And furthermore, forasmuch as the lands following, namely: Ardnamurchan and Sunart, Locheil, Ardgour, Kingairloch, Morvern and the isles of Canna and Rum which lie contiguous to the said sheriffdoms of Argyll and Tarbert and are distant from the burgh of Inverness (which is the head burgh of the sheriffdom of Inverness, within the which sheriffdom the lands and isles immediately above-written lie) by the space of 100 miles or thereby and the said lands and isles at the furthest are distant from the said burgh of Inveraray by the space of 30 or 40 miles, likewise the said whole lands and isles pertain to the said Archibald, lord Lorne heritably in property or tenancies (except the lands in Morvern and Kingairloch which pertain heritably to Sir Lauchlan MacLean of Morvern, knight, Murdoch MacLean of Lochbuie and [...] MacLean of Kingairloch, and who are willing that the said lands be joined to the said sheriffdom of Argyll and have given in their humble petition for that effect), therefore his majesty, with advice and consent of the said three estates of this present parliament, has dismembered and by this act dismembers the whole particular lands and isles immediately above-written from the said sheriffdom of Inverness and joined and united and by this act joins and unites the same lands and isles to the said sheriffdom of Argyll, and declares the inhabitants of the same lands and isles to be free of the jurisdiction of the sheriff of Inverness and to be liable to the jurisdiction of the said sheriff of Argyll in all time coming, and declares and ordains the foresaid burgh of Inveraray to be in all time hereafter the head burgh of the said united sheriffdom of Argyll, comprehending both Argyll and Tarbert and the other lands and isles above-specified now united thereto as said is, and declares that all citations, summons, denunciations of hornings, inhibitions, brieves and such other public citations and proclamations shall be made, used and executed at the market cross of the said burgh of Inveraray for the whole bounds of both the said united sheriffdoms of Argyll and Tarbert and of the other lands and isles above-specified now united to the said sheriffdom of Argyll as said is and for the whole inhabitants thereof and that no citations, summons, denunciations of hornings, inhibitions, brieves nor any other such public citations or proclamations shall be used at any time hereafter at the market cross or accustomed place of Tarbert, and likewise ordains the foresaid burgh of Inveraray to be the ordinary place for administration of justice to the whole inhabitants of the said sheriffdom of Argyll, comprehending the said sheriffdom of Tarbert and other lands and isles above-specified now united thereto as said is, as being the head burgh of the said united sheriffdom of Argyll as is above-mentioned; without prejudice always to the said Archibald, lord Lorne and his foresaids whenever occasion be offered to hold sheriff courts within any part of the bounds of the said united sheriffdoms of Argyll and Tarbert and other lands and isles above-specified now united to the said sheriffdom of Argyll as said is, for the ease and commodity of his highness's lieges, inhabitants thereof and others subject to the courts of the same and to cite them to compear before him or his foresaids or their deputes upon the ground of any part of any lands lying within the said united sheriffdoms of Argyll and Tarbert and other lands and isles above-specified united to the said sheriffdom of Argyll as said is, as they shall be cited and required; and ordains publication hereof to be made at the market crosses of Inveraray, Tarbert and Inverness to all and sundry of our said sovereign lord's lieges and others whom it pertains to the effect that none pretend ignorance thereof; and ordains this act to be a sufficient warrant to the clerk register and his deputes for extending of an act of parliament hereupon in due and competent form.