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The estates of parliament etc., taking into their consideration that by the 17th act of the third parliament of our sovereign lord that last was of 24 July 1644 the estates of parliament have declared all such pretended titles or rights of patronage acclaimed by ministers within this kirk and kingdom as parts and pendicles of their benefices and whereof they have been in use of presentation to be null and of no effect in all time coming, and that presbyteries in their several jurisdictions have the only power of planting and providing of these kirks by their own right without prejudice of the interest of parishes according to the acts and practices of the kirk since the reformation. And herewith also considering the kirks of Drumblade, Skene, Kintore, Kinellar, Dyce and Kemnay and patronages thereof respectively fall directly within the compass of the aforesaid act as being kirks and pendicles of the kirk of Kinkell, of old erected in a benefice and parsonage whereof the kirks above-written were proper parts and pendicles, the said estates of parliament do therefore hereby dissolve, disunite and separate the aforesaid kirks of Drumblade, Kintore, Skene, Kinellar, Dyce and Kemnay, with the right of patronage and title of the teinds respectively of the same kirks, from the aforesaid kirk and benefice of Kinkell, and declare the same to be separate and distinct parish kirks and parishes by themselves and in no way to be parts and pendicles of the said kirk of Kinkell, benefice and parsonage thereof in all time coming. And by this act erect the same six kirks and each one of them in six separate and distinct parishes and functions separate from the said parish of Kinkell without prejudice of the tacks and other rights formerly granted to and acquired by the heritors and other parishioners of the said parishes from the parsons of Kinkell for the time and prorogations thereof, which are hereby declared to be unprejudiced as by law. And the said estates statute and ordain the present ministers, namely: Mr Andrew Strachan, minister at Kintore, Mr Alexander Scrogie, minister at Drumblade, Mr William Chalmer, minister at Skene, Mr William Keith, minister at Kinellar, Mr William Cheyne, minister at Dyce, and Mr John Seaton, minister at Kemnay, and their succeeding ministers, to be titulars of and have right to the teinds, fruits, rents and other emoluments of the crops and years of God 1647 and 1648 and in time coming, without prejudice as above.