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The parliament of our most excellent prince and most dread lord, the lord James IV, by the grace of God most illustrious king of Scots, held and begun at Edinburgh on Monday 16 February 1505 [1506], by the subscribed lords commissioners.
On which day the court was constituted and the suits were called, those absent were named in the rolls.
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In the presence of the supreme lord our king
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On which day our sovereign, with the full consent and agreement of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, has dissolved and released and dissolves and releases the annexation made of his earldom of March to his crown, as regards the extent of the barony of Earlston and that part of the said earldom, so that his highness can freely convey that at his pleasure as his grace might have done before the said annexation.
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On which day our sovereign lord, with the full consent and agreement of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, has ratified and approved, and by the authority of parliament ratifies and approves, the creation and making of new baronies created and made within his earldom of Strathearn within these past three years, and releases the said baronies and lands annexed to them from all service owed from them in our said sovereign lord's steward courts of his said earldom of Strathearn, and wills that the said service is to be made in his sheriff courts of Perth in the future. And also grants and wills that his grace is to be free and that it shall be lawful for him to create any other new baronies within his said earldom for service to be made in his said sheriff courts of Perth, and dissolves and releases the annexations made of the said earldom in that case at all times in the future.
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On which day our sovereign lord, with the advice and consent of his three estates of his realm in this present parliament, decrees and ordains that the lands of Tulliallan, with its suit and presence, is to be newly returned to the stewartry of Strathearn, as it was previously before its union with the sheriffdom of Stirling, and dissolves and releases the said union in that case at all times in the future.
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On which day our sovereign, with the advice, consent and agreement of his three estates of his realm in this present parliament, has given and granted, and by the authority of parliament gives and grants, to his trusted cousin and councillor Alexander [Home], lord Home, great chamberlain of his realm, the dean of Cockburnspath, encompassing the brae head to the burn end, lying within the earldom of March and sheriffdom of Berwick, according to the form of the charter to be made for that, despite the annexation made of the said earldom of March to his crown, and also [it] shall be bounded and specified in the said charter to be made for that afterwards by our said sovereign lord.
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Item, it is decreed and ordained by our sovereign lord in this present parliament, with the advice, full consent and agreement of the three estates of his realm, that it shall be lawful for his grace to divide sheriffdoms and create, unite and annex the same and cause suits and presence to answer to them as his highness thinks it expedient, both outwith parliament and within parliament at all times in the future, except that the inhabitants of the said sheriffdoms shall compear to submit to the law at the usual and customary place where the said justice ayres were previously held.
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On which day our sovereign, with the advice, consent and considered decision of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, ratifies, approves and with the authority of parliament confirms the donation and gift made by his most noble progenitor of good memory, whom God absolve, King James II, to the late John of Balfour of the lands of Easter and Wester Balgarvie, lying within the lordship of Fife, and the mill of Skeoch, lying within the lordship of Stirlingshire, and held from our said sovereign lord in feu ferme, and [he] also now newly gives the said lands and mill to Michael Balfour of Burleigh, knight, servant of his highness, as inheritance, to be held by him and his heirs from our sovereign lord and his successors in feu ferme according to the form of his old infeftment.
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On which day our sovereign lord, with the full consent and agreement of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, gives licence and freedom to a reverend father in God and his trusted counsellor David [Hamilton], bishop of Argyll and his successor bishops of Argyll and to their tenants to take heather and peats within all mosses and muirs within his lordship of Cowal where such things have usually been taken, and [he] ordains a charter to be made in due form for that under his great seal, along with some of the seals of the lords and the three estates of his aforesaid realm.
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On which day our sovereign lord, with the full consent and agreement of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, mortified 20 merks usual money of Scotland for the infeftment of a perpetual chaplain to sing in the chapel at his palace of Holyroodhouse, and for his fee in the keeping of the said palace forever and as long as our sovereign lord provides for that amount.