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James, by the grace of God king of Scots, to all and sundry our lieges and subjects to whose attention the present letters shall come, greeting. Know that - being at the perfect and lawful age of 25 years, and after our general revocation made at the said age, of all our gifts granted in our minority years - with the advice, consent and deliberation of the three estates of our realm, we have committed, and by the presents commit, on behalf of ourself and our successors, to our dearest spouse and consort Margaret, queen of Scotland, the rule, governorship and custody of our dearest eldest son James [Stewart], duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick and lord of Cunninghame, for the five full years next and immediately following the feast of Pentecost after the date of the presents, upon our expenses annually for governorship and custody; and we have also committed, and by the presents commit, to our said dearest spouse the keeping of the castle of Edinburgh for the said term of five years from the said feast of Pentecost, likewise upon our expenses, and with an annual pension for the keeping of the said castle - as hitherto paid by custom and usage - to be paid annually to her, our dearest consort, and her constables in her name, for the said five years to come; with additionally the power to substitute, depute and constitute constables, janitors, guards, gaolers and the other officers necessary for the keeping of the said castle, as it shall seem expedient to her, [and] for whom she will be responsible, and to make and do all and sundry other things which will be needful or opportune in and relating to the aforesaid matters. Wherefore we strictly order and command all and sundry who has or may have an interest that they promptly answer, obey and attend to our said dearest consort and her constables, ministers and servants in all and sundry matters concerning the rule and governorship of our said dearest eldest son, and the keepership of the said castle, for the said five years. Given under our great seal at Edinburgh, 17 February 1477 [1478], and in the eighteenth year of our reign.
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James, by the grace of God king of Scots, to all good men of all his land, clergy and laymen, greeting. Know that - being at the perfect and lawful age of 25 years, and after our general revocation made at the said perfect age, of our gifts granted in our minority years - with the advice, consent and deliberation of the three estates of our realm, we have given, granted, and by this our present charter have confirmed, and give, grant and by this our present charter confirm, on behalf of ourself and our successors, by deliberation of the three estates of our realm, to our dearest spouse and consort Margaret, queen of Scotland - in recompense and satisfaction of the same for her third part of all the property and our revenues of our kingdom previously promised and contracted by our ambassadors to our said dearest consort for her dowry and widow's portion of the same, and appointed and obliged between our same ambassadors and the most excellent and mighty prince, Christian [I], king of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Slavs and the Goths, father and progenitor of our said dearest consort - the lands, lordships, castles and burgh fermes, with liberties, pertinents and annexes underwritten, namely all of our lordship of Galloway, both above and below the water of Cree, with the great and small customs and burghal fermes of our burghs of Kirkcudbright and Wigtown, with our castle of Threave in the same lordship; also all of our lordship of Ettrick Forest, with the tower, fortalice and manor of Newark in the same forest; and all and sundry the lands of the lordship of Stirlingshire and Tillicoultry, with the castle of Stirling, and with the great and small customs and burghal fermes of our burgh of Stirling; and all of our lordship of Strathearn, with the great and small customs of our burgh of Perth; and also all and sundry our lordships of Menteith, Strathgartney and Balquhidder, with our castle of Doune in Menteith; and all of our lordship of Kinclaven, all of our lordship of Methven, with the castle of Methven, and all of our lordship of Linlithgowshire, with the palace, lake and ward of Linlithgow, and with the great and small customs and burghal fermes of our burgh of Linlithgow; and with justice [and] chamberlain ayres, [and] the courts of sheriffs and royal bailies and with the profits, benefits and escheats of the said ayres and courts within the said lands and lordships and burghs, [with] wards, reliefs and marriages as often as they occur, and with the right of patronage to the advowsons and presentations of all benefices, churches, hospitals and chaplainries within the said lands, lordships and burghs as often as they fall vacant. Having and holding all and sundry the aforesaid lordships, lands, castles, towers [and] palace, with the great and small customs and burghal fermes of the said burghs, with the abovesaid pertinents and annexes, liberties and privileges, to our aforesaid dearest spouse Margaret, queen of Scotland, of us and our successors - in recompense [and] satisfaction for her said third part of the property and revenues of our kingdom, for all the time of her life, if at the pleasure and will of almighty God we predecease her - according to all their right, ancient and devised marches, as they lie in length and breadth, in woods, plains, muirs, marshes, roads, paths, waters, ponds, streams, meadows, grazings and pastures, mills, multures and their sequels, hawking, hunting, fishing, peat-muirs, turbaries, coal-mines, quarries, stone and lime, smithies, maltings, heath and broomlands, forests, woodlands, gardens, orchards, mountains, watercourses, lakes, castles, towers, palaces, fortalices, mansions and manors, with courts and their issues, heriots, blood-wits, escheats and merchets of women, pastures, commons and free entry and exit, and the other universal liberties and privileges, with pit and gallows, sok, sak, toll, theame, infangthief, outfangthief, with the said justice and chamberlain ayres, and courts of sheriffs and royal bailies and their escheats, amercements, profits, exactions, rights and issues, tenants, tenandries, wards, reliefs, marriages, and with the entry and services of freeholders as often as they occur during the time; and with the right of patronage to the advowsons of churches and to the presentations of all benefices, churches, hospitals and chaplainries as often as they fall vacant, within the abovesaid lands, lordships and burghs; and with all and sundry other liberties, profits and easements and just pertinents whatsoever, whether not named or named, below the ground or above it, both far and near, belonging, or in future, in whatsoever manner, coming justly to belong, to all and sundry the aforesaid lordships, lands, castles, towers [and] palace, with the great and small customs and burghal fermes of the said burghs, with abovesaid pertinents, during the lifetime of our said dearest spouse, and that as freely, tranquilly, fully, wholly, honourably, well and in peace, in and by all things, just as we now possess the aforesaid lordships, lands, castles, towers [and] palace, with the great and small customs and burghal fermes of the said burghs, with pertinents, or [as] our successors, kings or king of Scots, will possess the remainder of our kingdom, without the making of any manner of revocation, impediment or contradiction to our dearest spouse, as long as she lives. In witness whereof we have ordered our great seal to be affixed to the present charter. Witnesses: reverend fathers in Christ John [Laing], bishop of Glasgow; Thomas [Spens], bishop of Aberdeen; William [Tulloch], bishop of Moray, the keeper of our privy seal; Andrew [Pictoris], bishop of Orkney; our dear uncles and cousins Andrew [Stewart], lord Avondale, our chancellor; John [Stewart], earl of Atholl, lord Balvenie; James [Stewart], earl of Buchan, lord of Auchterhouse, our great chamberlain; Colin [Campbell], earl of Argyll, lord Campbell and Lorne, the master of our household; David [Lindsay], earl of Crawford, lord Lindsay; James [Hamilton], lord Hamilton; Robert [Lyle], lord Lyle; John [Carlyle], lord Carlyle; John Colquhoun of that Ilk, knight; Masters Archibald Whitelaw, archdeacon of Lothian, our secretary; and Alexander Inglis, chancellor of Aberdeen, clerk of our rolls and register. At Edinburgh, 20 February 1477 [1478], and in the eighteenth year of our reign.