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Our soverane lord, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, ratifies, approves and confirmes ane signator and grant granted and supersigned be his majestie at Whitehall, the tent day of September 1660 yeers, ordaining ane charter to be made and past under his majesties' great seall of Scotland, ratifieing and approveing and, for his hienes and his successors, perpetually confirmeing in favours of the royall burrowes of Scotland, all and whatsumever charters, infeftments, confirmations, gifts, grants, donations, mortifications, decreits, sentences [and] acts of parliament or secreit councill, conceaved in favours of the saids royall burrowes of Scotland for their generall or particular conventions and other liberties belonging unto them, and all other writs and evidents whatsumever made, granted or conceaved by any of the kings or queens of Scotland, or by the governours or regents thairof for the tyme, or be their commissioners, to and in favours of the saids burghs in relation to the generall or particular conventions aforsaids, in the haill heids, articles, clauses and conditions of the same conceaved in favours of the said royall burrowes, and his majestie willed and declaired that the said generall confirmation is and shall be, in all tyme comeing, of als great force, strenth and effect in all respects to the saids royall burrowes as if all and sindrie the saids infeftments, gifts, dispositions, mortifications, acts, decreits, confirmations and others rights, titles and securities forsaids wer at lenth and word be word insert, ingrossed and confirmed therintill, saifand and reservand alwayes to his majestie and his successors the dewties, rights and services used and wont to be payed and done to his majestie and his progenitors, of blessed memorie, be the saids royall burrowes, together with the forsaid charter appointed to passe under the great seall upon the said signatour, in the haill heids, clauses and conditions thairof, willing, declareing and ordaining thir presents to be als valeid and sufficient as if the said signatour and charter to follow thairupon wer alreadie extendit and past under the great seall, and that the same, together with all and sindrie infeftments, gifts, dispositions, mortifications and other rights, titles and securities forsaids, thairby ratified and approven wer heirin at lenth word be word insert and ingrossed; and his majestie, with advice and consent of his saids estates of parliament, decernes and ordaines the forsaid signatour and charter to passe thairupon with this present confirmation thairof to be ane good and perfyte right to the saids royall burrowes for their generall or particular conventions and other liberties belonging to them granted be his majesties' dearest father, of blessed memorie, King Charles the first, or any others of his royall predicessors, and ordaines his majesties' thesaurers principall and deput and remanent lords of exchequer to passe to the saids royall burrows particular infeftments and grants of their liberties forsaids.