[1526/6/34]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, regarding the article made touching the guiding of the king's most noble person, it is devised, ordained and concluded that the lords to be chosen by our sovereign lord to be of his secret council, or the majority of them, shall await upon his grace and give him counsel regarding the guiding and ordering of his highness in his person for the sure conservation thereof in health, honour and prosperity, and all other things concerning the guiding of his realm and common welfare of the same, whose council his grace of his humility has promised to exercise and not to pass therefrom.
[1526/6/35]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, our sovereign lord, with the advice and authority of the three estates of his realm, presently revokes all gifts, seals, donations and pensions given to any person or persons whatsoever of his property since the death of [James IV], his most noble father, whom God absolve, so that his whole property shall be brought in to our said sovereign lord's comptroller for the honourable furnishing of his houses for the royal estate as appropriate.
[1526/6/36]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
†Item, regarding the article touching the course of money, the importation of bullion, gold and silver, and the taking of the gold out of the mine, ordains the acts and statutes made thereupon of before to have effect and to be put to execution in the sharpest form, and searchers to be assigned thereto as appropriate, that is to say Archibald Douglas [of Kilspindie], provost of Edinburgh, to be principal searcher at the port of Leith, with such deputies as he pleases to assign under him, to search and seek all manner of persons passing out of this realm at the said port so that none of them take money, gold or silver, coined or uncoined, out with them; and similarly, the said Archibald is to assign under him searchers at every port of the realm to that effect so that the money may remain in the same, uncarried out of the realm, according to the old acts of parliament made thereupon of before; and the said searchers to escheat and take all such money to be had away, and that one half of the money escheated to be brought in to our sovereign lord's use and the other half to remain with the searchers for their labours.
[1526/6/37]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, regarding the article made to provide how the old acts and statutes made against those who do contrary to the king's privilege, granted to his predecessors and successors by the see of Rome, and especially the temporal men who, in violation of the said acts, undermine the king's authority, make finance and furnishing to the persons breaking and hurting our sovereign lord's privilege, and what order shall be taken against Scottish clerks remaining in Rome who continue in opposition to our said sovereign lord's privilege, it is statute and ordained in this present parliament that the acts and statutes made of before against those acting contrary to our said sovereign lord's privilege, and regarding the order that shall be taken against Scottish clerks who continue in Rome against our sovereign lord's privilege, that the acts and statutes made thereupon of before be observed and kept in time to come, and that dittay be taken upon the breakers of any of the said acts to underlie the law for the same on the third day of the next justice ayre of the shire where the breakers dwell, or upon 15 days' warning before our sovereign lord's principal justice or his deputies, when and where they shall be summoned thereto by our said sovereign lord's letters, so that justice shall be done extremely to those acting contrary to the privilege granted to the king's highness and breaking the acts and statutes made thereupon after the form and tenor thereof.
[1526/6/38]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, regarding the article made regarding the marriage of our sovereign lord and what diligence shall be made therein, it is thought expedient by the three estates in this present parliament that honest ambassadors be sent to France and England, as it shall please the king's grace, to treat upon his marriage according to his royal estate.
[1526/6/39]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, regarding the proposed article to put some order for the keeping of the old acts of parliament that are punitive through the breaking thereof, from which the realm takes great harm, and the non-punishment of the same causes the king's grace to want great profits, it is statute and ordained in this present parliament that the said acts and penal statutes made of before be observed and kept in time to come, and that the breakers thereof be called by our sovereign lord's letters to particular diets before the king's grace and his council to hear them be discerned to have incurred the pains contained in the said acts and to be punished thereof after the form and tenor of the same etc.
[1526/6/40]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, regarding the article proposed, forasmuch as often young persons die who may not make testaments, the ordinaries usually appoint executors dative to their goods, who intromit therewith and withdraw the goods from the kinfolk and friends that should have the same by law, it is statute and ordained by the three estates in this present parliament that where any such persons die within age that may not make their testaments, the nearest of their kin to succeed to them shall have their goods without prejudice to the ordinaries regarding the quot of their testaments.
[1526/6/41]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, it is statute and ordained that no legate nor legation be accepted in this realm but by the advice of our sovereign lord and his three estates and known to be by them for the common welfare of the same according to the old acts of parliament made thereupon as before.
[1526/6/42]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Item, regarding the article made to provide remedy against the cruelty and falsehood of those who, under trust with deceit, commit cruel slaughters, and against those who, during the night, commit slaughter, the burning of houses, cornyards and corn, and who slay any of the king's council or ambush men in their own houses and slay them, it is statute and ordained by the three estates in this present parliament, for the eschewing of such cruelty in time to come, that no respite or remission shall be given until our sovereign lord's age of 25 years to any manner of person or persons whomsoever who, under trust with deceit, commit slaughter, or to those who, during the night, make slaughter, burn houses, corn, cornyards or slay any of the king's council or ambush men in their own houses and slay them, but all such persons are to be called according to the laws of the realm and extreme justice done upon them with all rigour, so that in case such committers of cruelty might, by circumvention, obtain respites or remissions, the same, if any be given, are to be of no value, force nor effect in time to come.
[1526/6/43]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The king's grace declares that he gave command to the earls [Archibald Douglas, earl of] Angus and [John Stewart, earl of] Lennox, the lords [Robert Maxwell, lord] Maxwell, [Malcolm Fleming, lord] Fleming and [William Cunningham], master of Kilmaurs to pass and to take certain rebels being in company with [Patrick Hepburn], master of Hailes in Bolton and, therefore, his highness and three estates of parliament declare that the said lords, nor any being in their company, committed any crime in raising of fire or taking the said Master Hailes and rebels, but by judgement of parliament decree them innocent and to incur no accusation thereof in time to come.
[1526/6/44]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The king's grace and the three estates of parliament ordain respites to be made and given to the earls [Archibald Douglas, earl of] Angus, [Colin Campbell, earl of] Argyll and [John Stewart, earl of] Lennox,†[Cuthbert Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, [Robert Maxwell], lord Maxwell,† their kin, friends, men, tenants and servants and their other partakers to be named and specified by them, for all manner of crimes, treason in our sovereign lord's person only excepted, and the said respites to endure for the space of 19 years, providing that worthy satisfaction be made to all complaining parties on the persons to be named in the said respites. And also, his grace wills that the said general respite granted by him in parliament to the said earls of Angus, Lennox, Argyll, Glencairn and Lord Maxwell and their friends be to the date 12 June in the year of God foresaid, which was the beginning of the parliament, and the said respites to have no place from that time forward except for actions committed before the date thereof. Providing likewise that [Hugh Montgomery], earl of Eglinton, [William Sempill], lord Sempill, Neil Montgomery, [John Stirling], laird of Keir, or the persons that committed that last slaughter in Fife of the servant of [Robert Douglas], laird of Lochleven, shall in no way be comprehended in the said respite; and the said lords to give in the names of the persons who they will have named in the said respite within 20 days next to come.