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Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, by this act ratifies and approves the charter or letters patent made and granted by his majesty, of the date at Whitehall, 10 May 1628, whereby, and for the causes onerous therein contained, his majesty separated, dismembered and divided in all time thereafter the lands of Portrie and Kinhilt and twenty merk land called Sorbie's Lands, lying within the sheriffdom of Wigtown, from the kirk and parish of Inch, within the which the same did lie of before, and erected the said lands and barony of Portrie and Kinhilt with the said twenty merk land called Sorbie's Lands and whole bounds within the same in a separate and distinct parish, and ordained the kirk then being built within the burgh of Portpatrick, alias Port Montgomery, to be the parish kirk thereof in all time thereafter, and ordained the said kirk to be planted with a sufficient pastor and minister to serve the cure thereat as a separate parish kirk, and ordained the whole inhabitants of the said burgh of Portpatrick, alias Port Montgomery, with all other inhabitants within the said lands and barony of Portrie and Kinhilt and twenty merk land foresaid called Sorbie's Land, to repair to the said kirk of Portpatrick, alias Port Montgomery, to the pious uses therein mentioned, and whereby his majesty erected the said kirk in a separate title and rectory to be called the rectory of Portpatrick and gave, granted and conveyed to Hugh [Montgomery], viscount of Montgomery of Airds, his heirs and successors, the advocation, donation and right of patronage of the said rectory, with the right of presentation and nomination of the ministers to serve at the said kirk in all time thereafter, and united and annexed the same advocation, donation and right of patronage of the said rectory to the foresaid barony of Portrie and Kinhilt pertaining heritably to the said Hugh, viscount of Montgomery. And also, by this act, ratifies and approves the charter of mortification made and granted by his majesty under his highness's great seal, of the date at Hampton Court, 25 October 1630, whereby his majesty suppressed and extinguished the name and title of the abbacy of Soulseat, to the effect that the whole teinds, fruits, rents and duties pertaining to the said abbacy might be mortified, united and annexed to the kirk of Portpatrick, under the reservations mentioned in the said charter of mortification, and whereby his majesty mortified, united and annexed to the said kirk of Portpatrick, and to the minister serving the cure thereat and his successors for ever, the whole teinds, parsonage and vicarage great and small, kirks, rents, profits, duties and emoluments pertaining of before to the said abbacy and spirituality thereof, reserving to his majesty and his successors the presentation of the ministers of the kirks of Soulseat and Kirkmaiden in the Rhinns, which were of before the only two kirks of the said abbacy, together with the whole local stipends and teinds of the said kirks paid to the ministers serving the cure at the same kirks and their successors already modified to them, and whereof they were in possession before the date foresaid of the said last charter, and whereby his majesty gave, granted and conveyed to the minister serving the cure at the said kirk of Portpatrick and his successors the whole rest and remaining teinds, parsonage and vicarage, fruits and rents of the said two kirks of Soulseat and Kirkmaiden (over and above the local stipends above-mentioned) to remain with the said kirk of Portpatrick as a part of the patrimony thereof for ever, and whereby his majesty gave, mortified and assigned to the said minister of Portpatrick and his successors the whole feu ferms and feu mails of the whole temporal lands of the said abbacy of Soulseat of the crop and year of God 1630, Whitsunday [16 May] and Martinmas [11 November] terms thereof, and of all years and crops thereafter under the declaration and provision mentioned in the said last charter in all and sundry points, articles and clauses contained in the said two charters, after the forms and tenors thereof. And declares and ordains that this present ratification of the said two charters, both under the great seal, is and shall be as good and sufficient in all respects as if the same two charters were at length and word by word inserted and engrossed herein, dispensing hereby with the not inserting thereof in this present ratification. Likewise his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, by this act statutes and ordains that the foresaid first charter or letters patent and this present ratification thereof are, and shall be, sufficient rights and securities to the minister of the said kirk of Portpatrick, alias Port Montgomery, and his successors for possessing and enjoying of the teinds thereof provided to him and to the said Hugh, viscount of Montgomery of Airds and his foresaids, for the peaceable possessing and enjoying of the said advocation, donation and right of patronage of the said parish kirk or rectory, and of the right of presentation and nomination of the ministers to serve the cure at the said kirk in all time coming. And likewise that the foresaid last charter and this present ratification thereof are, and shall be, a sufficient, valid and lawful right and security to the said minister of Portpatrick and his successors for holding, enjoying and possessing of the teinds, parsonage and vicarage, fruits, rents, emoluments, feu ferms, feu mails and others above-mentioned mortified to them by the said last charter perpetually in all time coming under the declaration and provision therein mentioned, ordaining this ratification 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, with provision always that this present ratification shall in no way be prejudicial to [Sir Robert Adair], laird of Kinhilt, his rights and infeftments, but that the same shall remain with him unhurt as of before.