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Forasmuch as our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, having considered how necessary and expedient it is that the power and jurisdiction of the dean of guild and their council within burgh be approved and allowed as it is now used in the town of Edinburgh, which is to the great furtherance of justice to our sovereign lord's lieges in all matters and actions concerning merchandise between merchant and merchant and between merchant and mariner, which actions ought not nor should not bide delay but be expedited and determined by the dean of guild and his council summarily as men chosen and appointed yearly by the council of the burgh most apt and able to judge and determine in all actions concerning merchants as said is; therefore our said sovereign lord, with advice of the estates in this present parliament, ratifies and confirms the judgement of the said dean of guild and his council in all actions concerning merchants as the same is set down by the provost, bailies, council and deacons of the burgh of Edinburgh and to have full strength and effect in all times according to the lovable form of judgement used in all the good towns of France and Flanders, where bursars are erected and constitute, and specially in Paris, Rouen, Bordeaux, Rochelle, and the particular form thereof to be set down again in this present parliament.