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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament ratify and approve the gifts of pension first granted by his highness's dearest father and mother to Sir James Melville of Halhill, knight, out of the customs of the burgh of Edinburgh, the one of £100, and the other of 500 merks, of the date the [...] day of [...] years, ratified and approved of new again by his majesty after his perfect age of 25 years, with augmentation of £300 money for his fee to be paid in like manner out of the said customs, as his last gift and ratification thereof bears, of the date 22 December 1591, with all clauses contained therein and decreets following thereupon; and excepts and reserves the said pensions with the foresaid augmentation out of the act of February or any other acts of parliament that in any way may concern the king's property or may appear prejudicially to the foresaid gifts and dispositions.