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Our sovereign lord, with advice of the three estates, ordains all archbishops, bishops and other ecclesiastical persons to build, repair and maintain their houses and manses in such case as may serve for their dwelling and the dwelling of their successors, and if they or any of them suffer the said houses or manses to ruin or decay in their default the successor shall have action against their executors for the same; as also where the said houses are fallen in decay and shall be built and repaired by any of the beneficed persons upon their own expenses, the next successor shall be obliged to give satisfaction thereof to the heirs or executors of the defunct at the sight of two or three of the bishops within the province, providing that the said satisfaction exceed not the sum of £1,000 if they be prelates, and 500 merks if they be other inferior ministers.