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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, considering that forasmuch as it has pleased his sacred majesty out of his royal zeal and fatherly affection to the growth and increase of religion within this his majesty's ancient and native kingdom, to give, mortify and convey to Master Alexander Munro, present minister at Dornoch, and his successor ministers serving the cure at the said kirk, being the cathedral kirk of the diocese of Caithness, all and whole the sum of 800 merks Scots money or eight chalders of victual in the option of the said minister and his successors foresaid in augmentation, to be uplifted out of the first and readiest of the rents of the said bishopric of Caithness and feu duties that pertained to the bishop in Sutherland and his rents and feu duties in the parish of Thurso and elsewhere in Caithness, at the option and election of the said Master Alexander and his successors serving the cure at the said kirk of Dornoch, with this declaration: that the said minister and his successors foresaid pay yearly 300 merks of the foresaid sum for repairing and upholding the fabric of the said kirk, and 200 merks yearly for helping to provide a schoolmaster for the grammar school thereat, in manner at length specified in the said signature; therefore, his majesty and estates of parliament ratify, approve and confirm the foresaid signature and gift in the whole heads, articles, clauses and circumstances thereof, and will and grant that this present confirmation shall be of as great value, force, strength and effect to the said Master Alexander Munro and his successor ministers serving the cure at the said kirk in all time coming for payment of the augmentation above-specified in manner and for the uses mentioned in the said gift, as if the said gift were word by word expressed herein. And further, his majesty and estates of parliament dissolve the foresaid augmentations of 800 merks or eight chalders of victual appointed to be uplifted and paid as said is from his majesty's crown and patrimony thereof, and from the late bishopric of Caithness and all other benefices to which the same pertained or was annexed to of before, to the effect the same may remain with the ministers serving the cure at the said kirk of Dornoch for the uses respectively foresaid as a testimony of his majesty's favour perpetually in all time coming.