[1526/11/8]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Cuthbert [Cunningham], earl of Glencairn asked for documents that my lord [James Hamilton, earl] of Arran declared that, if [Hugh Montgomery], earl of Eglinton would not take friends and cause come to an agreement regarding all debatable matters between the said Earls of Eglinton and Glencairn, that the said Earl of Eglinton should neither have the said Earl of Arran's heart nor his help in time to come. At the tenth hour.
[1526/11/9]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
In the presence of the lords of council compeared George Tarvit, pupil, son and apparent heir to Alexander Tarvit of that Ilk, and gave in his supplication making mention† that, where he has certain matters to conduct before the lords of council and a summons raised thereupon at his instance and his father's, who is now presently out of this realm, desiring therefore the said lords to give him curators for the purpose of lawsuits, which desire the said lords thought reasonable and, therefore, have given [Malcolm Fleming], my lord Fleming and Master James Foulis [of Colinton] as curators in lawsuits to the said pupil conjointly and severally, that he may by their counsel pursue his said matters as is appropriate.
[1526/11/10]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The lords assign tomorrow afternoon to the commissioners of burghs regarding the matter of the staple and that [Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie], my lord treasurer and provost of Edinburgh, produce the contracts and writings made thereupon† in the lodging of my lord [Gavin Dunbar, elder, bishop] of Aberdeen, and similarly the persons who have the said writings in keeping to compear at the said time and place.
[1526/11/11]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
In the first, for the honour of God and the Holy Kirk, our sovereign lord, with the advice of the three estates,† ordains that the freedom, liberties, privileges and immunities of the Holy Kirk and all spiritual persons, the three estates, be observed and kept in honour, worship and dignity for the time of our sovereign lord that now is, as has been in the time of his most noble progenitors of good mind of before, with this addition: that forasmuch as when prelacies, such as bishoprics or abbacies, happen to become vacant, the nomination thereof pertains to our sovereign lord and the provision of the same to our holy father Pope [Clement VII], nevertheless, ill-disposed persons in troubled times have put hands on and taken bishops' castles, palaces and fortalices by their own hand, by their own authority and without our sovereign lord's consent, command or letters at times when bishoprics are vacant and at other times, and similarly enter abbeys and take them and put the same in keeping in secular men's hands without the consent, command or letters of the king's grace and also without the command, advice or desire of the convents of such abbeys, to the displeasure of God almighty, our holy father the pope and in contempt of our sovereign lord's authority, through which the kirk and kirkmen are heavily hurt and damaged; therefore, it is statute and ordained in this present parliament that whomsoever person or persons in any time to come take any bishop's palaces, castles or strongholds, or enter in abbeys by their own authority, to hold these places without our sovereign lord's command, letters or charges or desire of the convents thereof at times when such bishoprics or abbacies are vacant, or any other time, they being not vacant, without the king's authority, they shall incur the crime of treason and lese-majesty and shall be called thereof at the king's pleasure upon their forfeiture, and to the loss of their lives, lands, heritage, goods, movable and immovable, honour and offices because the king's grace is held and bound to defend the Holy Kirk and kirkmen in their just causes.
[1526/11/12]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
†Ratifies and approves the contract and agreement made between Archibald Douglas [of Kilspindie], treasurer to our sovereign lord, provost of Edinburgh, and James Acheson, goldsmith, master coiner, touching the striking and printing of money, gold and silver, in all points and articles after the form and tenor of the said contract, of which the tenor follows, at Edinburgh, 30 October 1526, it is appointed and agreed.
[1526/11/13]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Our sovereign lord, with the advice, authority and consent of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, ratifies and approves all acts and statutes made before in favour of a venerable father in God, Dean John Maxwell, abbot of Dundrennan, regarding the abbacy of Melrose against Master Andrew Durie or otherwise, and especially the act and decreet last given against the said Master Andrew, of which the tenor follows: [...]†
[1526/11/14]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
[Abstract:] On the which day the king in parliament, with the consent of the three estates, for the common profit and for augmentation of his rentals, etc., confirms the donations and grant given to James Dunbar of Tullyglennis concerning the lands of Easter Tarbat, with the fishing, in the earldom of Ross, sheriffdom of Inverness, as in a royal charter of 21 August 1526, notwithstanding any prior annexations, etc.
[1526/11/15]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Our sovereign lord, with the advice and consent of the three estates of his realm, grants that if it shall happen that John Stirling of the Keir, knight, be forfeited in this present parliament, that the sum of money, namely [...], owing to Alison Home, daughter to the late Alexander [Home], lord Home, be reserved in the said forfeiture.
[1526/11/16]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Ratifies and approves the charter, gift and infeftment of the lands of Camore, lying within the earldom of Ross, made to his familiar servant Robert Gibb, in feuferme, in all points and articles after the form and tenor of the said charter and date.
[1526/11/17]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Our sovereign lord, with the advice, authority and consent of the three estates of his realm in this present parliament, ratifies and approves the charter and new infeftment made to John Grierson of the Lag of his lands of the Lag, mill, tower and fortalice thereof, the lands of McRathishill,† Dalgarnokholmis,† the yards and mill thereof, the superiority of the lands of Grennan, Blackmyre, the Shaws, otherwise called Messengers lands and Fisher lands, with tenants, tenantries thereof, lying within the sheriffdom of Dumfries, the lands of Rokkell† and Collyne† and mill thereof, and Kirkbriderig within the stewartry of Annandale, the lands called between the waters of Dalskairth, Holme, Reidbank,† Ardmolloch,† Marthrown, Woodhead and mill thereof, with the superiority of the lands of Auchenfranco and Barquhar, with tenants, tenantries etc., the lands of Dalcallach,† Holme, Coryardloch,† Drumiowane† and Loukfurd,† with their pertinents, lying within the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, which were the said John's heritably of before, of which charter the tenor follows: [...]
[1526/11/18]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
[Abstract:] On the which day the king in his parliament, with consent of the three estates, for the common profit, etc., confirms the grant and lease made to Joachim Hechscatter, Quentin de Lawitz, Gerald Sterk, Erasmus Schetis and Anthony Nibetus, and their heirs, of all the mines or diggings of gold, silver and other metals, as in their lease for the space of 43 years made at Edinburgh, 17 July 1526, and mandates confirmatory letters under the great seal.