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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the desire and supplication of James [Hamilton], earl of Abercorn, titular of the teinds of the parish of Kilpatrick, and Mr Harry Semple, Mr Alan Ferguson and Hugh Crawford of Cloberhill, commissioners of the presbytery of Dumbarton, within which presbytery the said parish does lie, and having warrant from Mr Matthew Ramsay, present minister of the said kirk, showing that whereas by decreet of the commissioners for plantation of kirks the said kirk is provided to six chalders of meal and two chalders of barley and £40 yearly for the communion elements, as the said decreet of the date the [...] day of [...] the year of God 16[...] years in itself at more length purports; and whereas yet there is not any locality given to the minister of the said stipend, which has bred several contests between the former ministers and the titular for payment of the said stipend, as there is presently between the presbytery and him for two years' bygone stipends of the said kirk, he offering to give valid heritors for payment thereof and they refusing to accept the same until it be legally and judicially given to them as a locality, and that the said supplicants, for taking away the present controversy and to prevent the same in time coming, are all unanimously willing, the one to give and the other to accept a locality, which cannot now be done in regard there is no commission for plantation of kirks now sitting. Therefore the said supplicants do humbly desire the said estates of parliament to interpose their authority for approving the locality herewith given in and subscribed by both the parties, that it may stand for a locality in all time hereafter according to the ordinance of the aforesaid decreet, which will be a ready means for the present payment of all arrears and security to the ministers in time hereafter, as at more length is contained in the said supplication. Therefore the said estates of parliament have ratified and approved and do hereby ratify and approve the locality of the minister's stipend of the kirk of Kilpatrick, whereof the tenor follows: In the first place, out of the laird of Luss's lands of the barony of Garscube, Colquhoun, Dunnerbock† and Auchentorlie, with their pertinents: three chalders, six bolls, two firlots, one peck, three fifths of a peck of meal and one chalder, three bolls, a half peck, a third part of a peck and a fifth part of peck of barley. Item, out of Sir William Hamilton of Earlston's lands of Wester Kilpatrick: one chalder of meal and four bolls of barley. Item, out of John Colquhoun's half lands of Milton: three bolls of meal and two bolls of barley. Item, out of Walter Colquhoun's two thirds of the lands of Barnhill: two bolls of meal, one boll and firlot, one peck and a third peck of barley. Item, out of William Johnston's twenty-five shilling land of Auchinleck: three firlots of meal and two firlots of barley. Item, out of Patrick Bryson's twelve shilling, six penny land there: one firlot, two pecks of meal and one firlot of barley. Item, out of Walter Logan's lands of Spittell of Tambowie: one boll, two firlots, one peck and three fifths of a peck of meal. Item, out of John Stark of Killermont's lands of Killermont: three bolls of barley. Item, out of John Balloch's lands of Temple of Polieclayre: one boll, two firlots of meal, one firlot, two pecks of barley. Item, out of the laird of Lauchope's ten pound land of Craigton, Tambowie and Carriden: two bolls of meal and four bolls of barley. Item, out of [Robert Napier of] Kilmahew's lands of Laid Cameloche: two bolls of barley; and out of his lands of Mains and Little Bavie: 14 bolls of meal, one boll, two firlots, one peck, a half peck, a third of a peck, half a third of a peck and two fifths of a peck of barley; which extends in total to 5 chalders, 15 bolls, 3 firlots, 1 peck and one fifth of a peck of meal, and 2 chalders, 6 bolls, 2 pecks and four fifths of a peck of barley, the which 2 pecks and four fifths of a peck of barley is in place of so much of the shortfall of the meal. Which locality above-written, to which the minister's entry is to be and begin this instant year of God 1649, the said James, earl of Abercorn and the commissioners above-named, in testimony of their mutual agreement to give and accept the same respectively, they have subscribed the same with their hands, written by Mr John Algeo, writer in Edinburgh, at the Canongate on 23 July 1649, before these witnesses, namely: to the subscription of the said James, earl of Abercorn Sir Alexander Hamilton, his brother-german, Robert Fork, sheriff clerk of Renfrew, and the said Mr John Algeo; and to the commissioners' subscriptions, the said Robert Fork and Mr John Algeo. And the said estates of parliament ordain the aforesaid locality to stand for the crop and year of God 1649 and at all times hereafter and to be a rule for payment of arrears according to the aforesaid ordinance and decreet of the commissioners of plantation of kirks, and, if need be, ordain letters of horning and others needful to be directed against the aforesaid persons in the appropriate form.