[1585/12/47]¹

Act in favour of Master William Leslie

²Our sovereign lord and three estates of parliament, remembering the good, true and thankful service done to his highness by his beloved familiar servant Master William Leslie, brother-german to John Leslie of Balquhain, to his great charges and expenses, in recompense our said sovereign lord gave, granted and conveyed to the said Master William, his heirs and assignees heritably all and whole the lands and annualrents which pertained to the blackfriars and whitefriars sometime situated within the burgh of Aberdeen, which infeftment, by occasion of the said Master William's absence in their late troubles, was revoked, and after the said revocation, the said [lands]³ and annualrents were conveyed to the provost, bailies, council and community of the said burgh of Aberdeen, and so, by the said revocation, in respect of the new disposition made of the said lands and annualrents as said is, there remained nothing to the profit and commodity of his majesty, and yet the said Master William remains thereby unrecompensed. Therefore, our said sovereign lord, with advice of his said three estates, by the tenor of this act, revokes, retreats, abrogates and annuls the aforesaid infeftment, precept and instrument of sasine following thereupon, given and granted to the said provost, bailies, council and community of the aforesaid lands and annualrents, with all other infeftments and dispositions following thereafter, if any be, and ordains a new infeftment thereof to be made to the said Master William, his heirs and assignees heritably, for payment to our sovereign lord and his successors of the sum of £40 yearly at two usual terms, Whitsunday [May/June] and Martinmas [11 November] in winter, by equal portions, to be bestowed and employed to the poor of the hospital of the said burgh of Aberdeen as his highness and successors shall appoint and think expedient.