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Sederunt: [James Beaton, archbishop of St Andrews], chancellor, [Gavin Dunbar, younger, archbishop of] Glasgow, [Robert Cockburn, bishop of] Dunkeld, [Gavin Dunbar, elder, bishop of] Aberdeen, [James Chisholm, bishop of] Dunblane, the earls [Colin Campbell, earl of] Argyll, [John Stewart, earl of] Lennox, [James Douglas, earl of] Morton, [William Graham, earl of] Montrose, the abbots [David Beaton, commendator of] Arbroath, [Alexander Milne, abbot of] Cambuskenneth, [Walter Mallen, abbot of] Glenluce, [John Erskine, lord] Erskine, [Sir William Scott of] Balwearie, [Mr John Campbell of Lundie], treasurer, and Master Adam Otterburn [of Auldhame and Reidhall].
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Compeared John Beaton of Creich and protested that, since he has the keeping of the palace of Falkland and the same is damaged, the thatch thereof being deficient, which will cause great harm unless it be hastily remedied, therefore to cause the fault to be mended or else to give him command to do the same at the king's expense and make him allowance thereof, and if they fail herein, that nothing be laid to his charge. At the fourth hour after midday.
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†The lords ordain that, because the king's officers, when they are charged by the treasurer to do service to the king's grace in his errands, allege that they have no horse and nor are their wages sufficient, through which diverse matters concerning the common welfare of the realm are postponed, that therefore the said treasurer shall have power to take the arms from any of our sovereign lord's officers under heralds who refuse to do such errands as he lays to their charge in the king's name in time to come.