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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, understanding that the kirk of the parish of Strageath was of old situated and built upon the neuk and utmost part of the said parish of Strageath, and the parishioners thereof finding the same in no way to be fit to be the parish kirk of the said parish in respect of the wideness and great bounds of the said parish, they therefore by the space of 24 years or thereby built and founded within the town of Blackford, which lies and is within the midst of the said parish, a new kirk for the great ease of the parishioners of the said parish for resorting thereto to hear the word of God and receive the benefits of the kirk; which kirk so built by them within the said town of Blackford has continually since the building and founding thereof been the parish kirk of the said parish, and the whole parishioners of the said parish of Strageath have continually since then received the benefit of the kirk thereat; therefore our said sovereign and estates of this present parliament ratify and approve the foresaid transportation of the said parish kirk of Strageath to the said town of Blackford; and decree and ordain the same kirk now built within the said town of Blackford to be the principal kirk of the said parish of Strageath in all time coming; and ordain the whole parishioners thereof to resort thereto and receive the benefit of the kirk thereat.