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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament having consideration of the great damage and harm which his majesty and lieges of this realm sustains through evil and untimeous payment of the feu duties of their lands set in feu ferm, therefore statute and ordain that in case it shall happen in time coming any vassal or feuar holding lands in feu ferm of our sovereign lord or of any other superior immediately in feu ferm to fail in making of payment of his feu duty to our sovereign lord's comptroller or other having power of him or to other immediate superiors or others having power of him by the space of two years whole and together, that they shall lose and forfeit their said feu of their said lands according to the civil and canon law likewise and in the same manner as if a clause irritant was specially engrossed and inserted in their said infeftments of feu ferm.