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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, understanding the great prejudice sustained by the lieges of this realm where the judgement seats of sheriffs and other judges are not so commodious neither in building nor in situation as the sheriff, other judges and their deputes may conveniently sit nor the parties may resort thereto, and specially that the sheriff of the Mearns, alias Kincardine, and his deputes have been in use these many years to sit at Kincardine, where there is neither a tolbooth nor any house to parties to lodge into for their entertainment, nor yet is the place in the midst of the shire, whereby the lieges within the said sheriffdom are greatly damnified; for remedy whereof, it is statute and ordained that the sheriff of the sheriffdom of Kincardine in all time to come shall sit and hold their courts at Stonehaven, as most fit and convenient to them and to the whole lieges within the shire, and that all precepts to be directed shall be to warn all parties within their jurisdiction to compear to pursue and defend in their courts at Stonehaven in all time hereafter.