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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the supplication presented to them by James [Livingstone], earl of Callander, lord Almond etc., patron of the kirks of Falkirk, Denny and Morvingsyde, and by Mr John Bruce, minister at the kirk of Morvingsyde, showing that the presbytery of Linlithgow, with consent of the earl of Callander, patron aforesaid, had taken into consideration the estate of the kirk of Morvingsyde lying within that presbytery, and that it is but a pendicle of the kirk of Falkirk, and that albeit it has been distinctly and separately served by a minister there for more than 60 years bygone, yet it is not separate from Falkirk and erected in a separate parish, and that thereupon the presbytery, with consent of the patron, did recommend to the parliament the separation of Morvingsyde from Falkirk and erection thereof in a distinct parish kirk by itself, as the presbytery's act and recommendation of 12 April 1648 purports; and therefore desiring the parliament to separate the said kirk of Morvingsyde from the aforesaid kirk of Falkirk and to erect the same in a distinct parish kirk by itself, and ordain an act of parliament to be made thereupon without prejudice to the earl of Callander and to his heirs and successors of their right of patronage of the same, as the supplication bears. The said estates of parliament, upon the consideration of the aforesaid supplication and of the act of recommendation of the presbytery of Linlithgow for disjoining the kirk and parish of Morvingsyde from the kirk and parish of Falkirk and erecting thereof in a separate parish kirk and parish by itself, have separated and disjoined and do hereby separate and disjoin the aforesaid kirk and parishes of Morvingsyde from the said kirk and parishes of Falkirk and by this act erect and constitute the same kirk and parishes of Morvingsyde in a separate distinct parish kirk and parish by itself, to be called the parish kirk and parish of Morvingsyde in all time coming; and hereby give and grant all liberties, privileges, commodities and other benefits whatsoever to the same kirk and parish of Morvingsyde and to the minister present and to come serving the cure there that is due and in any way righteously belongs and pertains to any other separate parish kirk and parish and to the ministers serving the cure there, and ordain the said kirk and parish of Morvingsyde to remain as a separate parish kirk and parish by itself in all time hereafter, without prejudice always to the earl of Callander and to his heirs and successors of the right of patronage of the same kirk and parish of Morvingsyde, which right of patronage thereof the estates declare is hereby reserved to them unprejudiced by the erection of Morvingsyde in a separate parish kirk and disjoining thereof from the kirk and parish of Falkirk in manner aforesaid.