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Our soveraigne lord, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament of this his highnes['s] antient kingdome of Scotland, hes ratified, approven and confirmed and, be thir presenttis, ratifies, approves and confirmes the chartor maid and granted be his majestie, undir his highnes['s] great seall of this kingdome, of the dait at Whitehall, the tuentie-fourth day of May jM vjC, thriescore [and] elivine years, wherby his majestie gave, granted and disponed to and in favors of his highnes['s] lovite James Meinzies of Enoch, and the aires male lawfullie procreat or to be procreat of his owne body, which failyieing to Alexander Meinzies, his brother german, and the aires male lawfullie to be procreat of his body, which failyieing to the said James Meinzies, his owne nearest and lawfull aires and assigneys whatsumever (they and their aires allwayes accepting and taking upon them the sir-name of Meinzies and bearing the armes of the familie of Enoch, otherwayes their right to the lands, barronie and others undirwrittin shall be void and null and shall descend, appertaine and belonge to the immediat and next aire who shall fullfill the forsaid condition, be the which chartor it is speciallie provided and declaired that if the aires of lyne who shall happin to succeid to the lands, barronie and others undirwrittine shall be aires female and portioners, in that caice, the eldest of the saids aires female, and whosoevir representing hir, incaice of hir deceas, shall succeid to the lands, barronie and others undirwrittine without division, she allwayes maryeing ane gentleman of the sir-name of Meinzies, or who shall assume and take on him, bear and carie the armes of the said familie of Enoch, and if it shall happin her to marie befor her succeiding to the lands, barronie and others undirwrittine, in that caice hir husband, and their aires, shall assume and take upon themselvis the said sirname of Meinzies, and shall bear the armes of the said familie of Enoch, otherwayes their right to the saids lands and barronie shall be voide and null, and shall descend, appertaine and belonge to the nixt immediat aire who shall fullfill the condition abovewrittin) all and haill the lands and barrony of Enoch, with maner place, fortalice, woods, forrests, fishings, milnes, tennents, tennandries, service of frie tennents, with advocatione, donatione and right of patronage of the altar of the blissed virgine Marie, situat within the paroach kirk of Dursdear, with all and sundry their pertinents, lying within the sherifdome of Drumfreis, and be annexation within the barronie of Meinzies and sherifdome of Perth, reserving allwayes to Katharine Dowglas, spous to the said James Meinzies, her lyfrent of such pairtes and portions of the saids lands and barronie, or of such ane anualrent or yearlie dewtie to be uplifted furth therof, in which she is provided by her contract matrimoniall, and upon the speciall provisions, conditions, restrictions and limitations at lenth sett doun in the said chartor; wherby also our said soveraigne lord hes, of new, given, granted and disponed to the said James Meinzies of Enoch, and his aires male and of taillie and provisione respective abovewrittine heretablie, undir the reservation, reversions, restrictions and limitations mentioned in the said chartor, all and haill the lands and barronie of Enoch, with the pertinents therof above mentioned, lying as said is and with all right, title and interest which his majestie, or his highnes['s] predicessors or successors had, hes or any wayes may have, clame or pretend therto, or to any pairt therof, or to the mailles, farmes, profeits and dewties of the samyn, be whatsoevir maner of way or for whatsoevir cause or occasione bygone preceiding the dait of the said chartor, all which his majestie hes therby renunced, transferred and ovirgiven in favors of the said James Meinzies, and his forsaids; as also, our said soveraigne lord hes, be the forsaid chartor, dissunited and disjoyned the forsaids lands and barronie of Enoch with the pertinents from the saids lands and barronie of Meinzies and sherefdome of Perth, and hes united and annexed the same lands to the sherifdome of Drumfreis, within the which the saids lands naturallie lyes, and hes lykwayes unite, annexed, created and incorporate all and haill the saids lands and barronie of Enoch, with the advocatione, donatione and right of patronage of the alterage of the blissed virgine Marie, with the tower, fortalice, houses, biggings and haill pertinents therof, dissolved, unite and incorporate and lying, as said is, in ane whole and frie barronie to be called, now as of befor and in all tyme comeing, the barronie of Enoch, with priviledge of taking infeftment and sasine therof at the maner place of Enoch, which is declaired to be ane sufficient sasine in all tyme comeing, for the haill lands and others abovespecified, to be holden be the said James Meinzies, and his aires male and of taillie and provision and assigneys forsaids, of his majestie and his highnes['s] successors in fie heritage and frie barronie for evir, for yearlie payment to his majestie and his highnes['s] successors superiors therof abovementionat, of the dewties, rights and services due and usuall to be payed furth of the saids lands, which waird holding his majestie, be the forsaid chartor, for himelfe and his highnes['s] successors, hes changed and taxed in all time comeing to the particular taxt dewties undirwrittine, willing, granting, decerning and ordaining that howoft and whensoevir in tyme comeing it should happin the saids lands and barronie and others abovewrittine, with the pertinents, to fall and become in the hands of his majestie and his highnes['s] successors, by reassoun of waird and nonentrie, and howoft and whensoevir it should happin the mariage of the aire or aires of the said James Meinzies, and his successors, in all tyme comeing, to fall and become in the hands of his majestie and his highnes['s] successors forsaids that, notwithstanding therof, the whole lands, barronie and others abovewrittine, holdine by service of waird and releiff as said is, shall be possessed and enjoyed be the said James Meinzies, and his forsaids, and the maills, farmes, profeits and dewties therof intrometted with and uplifted be them dureing the whole time and space of the said waird and nonentrie respective, or aither of them, all which, with the mariage of the said aire or aires of the said James Meinzies in tyme comeing, his majestie hes now, as then and then as now, sold and disponed in favors of the said James Meinzies of Enoch, and his forsaids, for payment yeirlie, dureing the haill tyme and space of the said waird and nonentrie respective, of the soume of two hundreth merks and fiftie merks Scots money, with the lyke soume for the releiff and the soume of fyve hundreth merkis money forsaid for the mariage, and giveing and granting power and libertie to the aires and successors of the said James Meinzies, in all tyme comeing, to obtaine themselvis served, retoured and infeft in the lands, barrony and others abovewrittine, with the pertinents, holdin in taxt waird, as said is, notwithstanding of their minorities for the tyme. As also, his majestie hes, be the said chartor, ratified, approven and confirmed all and sundry chartors, sasins, dispositions, procuratories and instruments of resignatione, and other writs, evidents, rights, titles and securities whatsoever made and granted be his majestie and his highnes['s] progenitors, or be any other persone or persones, to the said James Meinzies and his predicessors, of the forsaids lands, barronie, right of patronage, woods, fishings and others abovewrittine with the pertinents, or of anie pairt therof, in maner contained in the said chartor as the samyn at mair lenth bears; togidder with the precept of sasine following upon the said chartor, undir the testimoniall of his majesties' great seall of this kingdome, and instument of sasine following upon the same, of the dait the [...] day of [...], in all and sundrie heads, articles, clauses, provisions, conditions and circumstances therof, and aftir the forme and tennor of the samyn in all points. Morover, our said soveraigne lord, with advice and consent forsaid, wills, grants, decernes and ordaines that this present ratificatione is and shall be als valide and sufficient to the said James Meinzies of Enoch, his aires maill and of taillie, provisione and assigneys abovespecified, as if the same had bein granted befor the taking infeftment upon the said chartor, and as if the samyn chartor, precept and instrument of sasine following therupon, had bein verbatim insert and ingrost heirintill; queranent and with all defects and imperfections that may be moved or object theiragainst, our said soveraigne lord and estates of parliament, have dispensed and heirby dispenses for evir.
[Clerk's note]†
Followes the rest of the acts and ratifications done and past in the thrid session of the second parliament, of our most high and dread soveraigne, Charles the second, by the grace of God, king of Scotland, Ingland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, holden at Edinburgh from the tuelve day of Junij to the elevinth of September 1672, by his grace John, duke of Lauderdaill, marques of March, earle of Lauderdaill, viscount Maitland, lord Thirlestaine, Mussilburgh and Boltoun, his majesties' comissioner etc.
Att Edinburgh the elivinth of September 1672