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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament convened and held within his majesty's realm of Scotland, and the said estates, at his majesty's desire, understanding perfectly and having sufficient trial and considered in the said parliament the many good, true, thankful and profitable services in many ways done to his majesty by Patrick, now lord Lindores, sometime commendator of the abbacy thereof under-mentioned, and of the great charges, expenses and sums of money that he has sustained and disbursed, not only in his majesty's domestic and privy affairs and business these 24 years bygone or thereby during all the which time the said Patrick, lord Lindores has been actual and domestic serving gentleman in his majesty's chamber, but also of the other great sums of money, charges and expenses sustained by him at his majesty's marriage, baptism of the prince his dearest son and otherwise since, both within this his highness's kingdom of Scotland and also within his majesty's other kingdom of England, continually since his highness's repairing thereto (which his majesty has never yet recompensed), and for other great, reasonable, profitable and evident causes of the said realm of Scotland concerning the welfare thereof, commonly known to his highness and estates of the same, and well advised, tried, digested and considered and approved by them; and by decreet of this present parliament, upon sufficient verification taken by them thereupon, therefore our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid of this present parliament, with a full, deliberate mind and consent, have to the effect underwritten in part of remuneration of the said great and profitable services and of the said large sums of money and expenses dissolved and, by the tenor of this present act, simply and forever dissolve from his majesty's crown and patrimony thereof and from the first act of annexation of all kirk lands and temporal rents of benefices within this realm to his said crown and from all other annexations, both special and general made thereto at any times heretofore, all and sundry lands, lordships, baronies, castles, towers, fortalices, mansions, manor places, yards, orchards, towns, burghs, mills, multures, woods, thickets, parks, fishings, lochs, isles, inches, haughs, meadows, muirs, mosses, coals, coal pits, annualrents, tenements, reversions, customs, great and small, and others whatsoever of the temporality of the said abbacy of Lindores, with all and sundry their parts, pendicles, pertinents, tenants, tenancies, service of free tenants, superiorities, yearly feu ferms, kanes, customs and duties thereof, offices, jurisdictions, privileges and immunities of the same, advocations, donations and rights of patronages of kirks, parsonages, vicarages, prebendaries, chaplainries, altarages and other benefices, and all and sundry other rents, commodities, profits and emoluments whatsoever which pertained of before and of old to the said abbacy and monastery of Lindores, which were generally annexed to our said sovereign lord's crown and patrimony thereof upon 29 July 1587, or at any other time either before or since, dissolving the same therefrom simply and forever to the effect always after-specified; and likewise, seeing the principal mansion, abbey place, houses, buildings, yards and others under-mentioned within the precinct of the said abbacy and others adjacent thereto as follows, and also all and sundry the kirks, parsonages, vicarages, chaplainries, altarages, teind sheaves, other teinds, manses, glebes, fruits, rents, profits and emoluments pertaining of before to the spirituality of the said abbacy of Lindores were for reasonable and necessary causes resigned and demitted of before by the abbot and convent thereof in our said sovereign lord's hands, to the effect his majesty might convey the same in such manner as he should think expedient, therefore and to the effect a several rector and minister of God's word may be provided to every one of the said kirks, and for the other causes above-written, our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid have dissolved and, by the tenor of this present act, dissolves from the said abbacy and monastery of Lindores and from the patrimony thereof simply and forever, the principal mansion and manor place of Lindores, called of old the monastery and abbey place thereof, with all and sundry castles, fortalices, houses, buildings, yards and others lying within the enclosure and precinct of the said abbacy, and with all dovecots, greens, office houses and others adjacent and pertaining thereto of before; and also all and sundry the kirks, parsonages, vicarages, chaplainries, altarages, prebendaries and other benefices which pertained of before and of old to the said abbacy of Lindores, with all and sundry the teind sheaves, other teinds, fruits, rents, manses, glebes, profits and emoluments of the same, together with the advocation, donation and right of patronage thereof, and all other rents, possessions, profits, commodities and others whatsoever, as well in special as in general which pertained in any time bygone to the said abbacy of Lindores, as well to the spirituality as temporality thereof, and monks' portions of the same, or was possessed by the abbots, commendators and convent thereof respectively for the time as their property or patrimony of the same, both two part and third part thereof, which, by virtue of our said sovereign lord's anterior charter and infeftment made and granted by his majesty thereupon of before under his great seal of Scotland of the date at Perth, 31 March 1600, to Patrick, now master of Lindores, then styled and designed therein Patrick Leslie, son lawful to the said Patrick, lord Lindores, his male heirs whatsoever and their assignees heritably, were then by his majesty erected, united, annexed and incorporated in a whole and free temporal lordship and barony to the said Patrick Leslie and his foresaids, called and to be called the lordship and barony of Lindores; which charter and infeftment made thereupon to the said Patrick, master of Lindores and his foresaids (now seen, read and considered by the said estates of this present parliament) was also ratified, approved and confirmed of before by our said sovereign lord and estates of this realm for the time in the parliament held at Edinburgh, 15 November 1600. And in respect thereof, his majesty and estates foresaid of this present parliament declare and ordain this present act of dissolution of all and sundry the said lands, kirks and others above-rehearsed in general contained in the said anterior charter for avoiding of prolixity, to be as valid, sufficient and effectual as if the same anterior charter and infeftment, with all and sundry the particular lands, mills, fishings, kirks, teinds, mansions, rents and others therein specified were word for word wholly inserted in this act, to the effect it may and shall be permissible to our said sovereign lord, by virtue of his new charter and infeftment to be made and passed under his great seal of Scotland, to alienate, give, grant, convey and confirm to the said Patrick Leslie, now called Patrick, master of Lindores, his male heirs and assignees foresaid heritably, all and whole the said lordship and barony of Lindores, comprehending therein all and sundry the said towns, lands, burghs of barony, castles, towers, fortalices, mansions, manor places, mills, woods, fishings, rents, feu ferms, duties, superiorities, annualrents, tenants, tenancies and services of free tenants, offices, jurisdictions, privileges, kirks, rights of patronages, teinds and others whatsoever above-rehearsed, contained as well specially as generally in the said anterior charter and infeftment made thereupon by his highness of before to the said Patrick Leslie and his foresaids herein held as for expressed; and for new erection, union and incorporation of the same to them in a whole and free temporal lordship and barony called, and to be called in all time coming, the lordship and barony of Lindores, with the honour, dignities, votes and estate of a temporal lord of his majesty's parliaments and councils, with addition of badge and arms, to be held of our sovereign lord and his highness's successors in free heritage, free lordship and barony forever, for yearly payment to his highness and his successors thereof of [...] usual money of this his highness's realm of Scotland at the term of Whitsunday [May/June] in name of blench ferm only, and therewith paying to the rectors and ministers of the said kirks and their successors their yearly stipends and other duties specified in the said anterior charter only, notwithstanding that some of the said lands and others above-rehearsed specified therein were otherwise held of his majesty of before by virtue of the foresaid act of annexation for yearly payment of certain feu ferms and duties contained in the said anterior charter, with which our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid now, from a certain knowledge, for the causes above-written, have expressly dispensed and dispense by this act, and renouncing all right and action competent or that may be competent to his majesty and his successors relating thereto. And to the effect above-written our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid dissolve, suppress, extinguish and abolish the foresaid abbey and monastery of Lindores, memory and name thereof, with the whole orders, institutions and foundations of the same simply and forever, ordaining this present act of dissolution foresaid to be as valuable and effectual as any other act of dissolution made in this present parliament; and that the infeftment to follow hereupon be extended in more ample and sufficient form with all clauses needful, reserving and excepting always out of this present act and erection foresaid all regalities and privileges thereof, if any be possessed by the abbots and titulars of the said abbacy of before, to remain with our said sovereign lord and his highness's successors forever in all time coming.