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Our sovereign lord, with advice of the estates of this present parliament, ratifies and approves the letter of pension granted by his highness of the yearly duty of £140 paid out of the feu mails of the lordship of Altrie in favour of the late Master John Durie, minister of Christ's evangel, Marjorie Marjoribanks, his spouse, and Master Joshua Durie, their son, and the longest liver of the three, which letter of pension was also ratified and approved and confirmed before by our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, 5 June 1592; likewise his highness, with advice foresaid, of new gives and grants the said yearly pension to the said Marion† during all the days of her lifetime and to the said Master Joshua during all the days of his lifetime, notwithstanding of any act or constitution made or to be made for annulling or rescinding of pensions granted out of the annexed temporality or new erections, to the which this ratification shall make express derogation in as far as may be extended to the said yearly duty of £140 as the feu mails of the lordship of Altrie.