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Item, forasmuch as there has been of before diverse large and sumptuous expenses made by our sovereign lord's predecessors and himself in keeping, fortifying and reparation of the castle of Dunbar and fort of Inchkeith, which are both unprofitable to the realm and not able to defend the enemies thereof, in case the same were assaulted, and now, seeing that the said castle and fort are both become so ruinous that the same shall utterly decay, unless there be such expenses made thereupon as is unable to be performed without great inconveniences; and also, having consideration of an act of parliament made in our sovereign lord's late great-grandfather's time King James IV, of most worthy memory, ordaining the said castle of Dunbar to be demolished and cast down, as in the act made thereupon at more length is contained, which act as yet is not abrogated; therefore our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of [James Stewart, earl of Moray], my lord regent, and three estates of this present parliament, has ordained and ordains that the castle of Dunbar and fort of Inchkeith be demolished and cast down utterly to the ground and destroyed in such a way that no foundation thereof be the occasion to build thereupon in time coming.