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Forasmuch as our sovereign lord and three estates of this present parliament, considering not only the small quantity and bounds of the kirk of Lauder, which is not able to contain the third part of the parishioners thereof, but also the ruin and decay of the said kirk and the far distance thereof from the burgh of Lauder and from the most part of the parishioners thereof, so that the same is neither able to contain the whole parishioners thereof, nor yet can the said parishioners in the winter season conveniently come and repair to the said kirk for the far distance of place, therefore statute and ordain the parishioners of the said kirk of Lauder to remove the said kirk from that place where it stands presently, and to situate and build the same in more large form and bounds within the said burgh of Lauder for the better containing of the parishioners thereof; and that they may the more conveniently come and resort thereto in time coming.