[1585/12/65]¹

Ratification of a letter of tack to [Andrew Wood], laird of Largo, comptroller

²Concerning the supplication presented to our sovereign lord and three estates of this present parliament by Andrew Wood of Largo, his majesty's comptroller, making mention that where by virtue of contract and appointment made at Edinburgh on 10 November 1584 between his highness, John Fenton, steward of the abbey of Dunfermline for the time, and William [Stewart], commendator of Pittenweem, whose advice was appointed to be given to the said John in using the said office, on the one part, and the said Andrew Wood on the other part, he renounced, at his highness's desire, the tack and assedation set by his majesty to the [said]³ Andrew of the feu ferms and other duties indebted out of the barony of Largo of before, in recompense whereof, his majesty, then having the said abbacy of Dunfermline and fruits thereof in his own hands, set, with advice of the said steward, to the said Andrew Wood, his heirs and assignees specified therein, all and sundry the mails, ferms, kanes, customs, profits and duties of the lordship and barony of Newbarnshire, with the teind sheaves and other teinds, fruits and rents, both parsonage and vicarage, of the parish and kirk thereof, lying within the sheriffdom of Fife, sometime being a part of the patrimony and property of the said abbacy of Dunfermline, for all the days of his lifetime, and after his decease, for the lifetime of his nearest and lawful heir, and after the decease of the said heir, to his heirs and assignees for the space of 19 years, with diverse and sundry conditions and provisions contained therein, as in the same contract of the date aforesaid at more length is contained; as also his majesty since by contract made at Dunfermline on 16 June 1585, with advice of the lords of secret council, collector general and steward of Dunfermline on the one part, and the said Andrew Wood on the other part, passed the same contract in the form, effect and conditions as is contained in the other contract aforesaid in all points, as in the same of the date aforesaid likewise at more length is contained. And now true it is that the said Andrew Wood has obtained a new tack and assedation to him, his heirs and assignees in manner above-specified of Patrick [Gray], master of Gray, commendator of the said abbey and convent thereof, of all and sundry the said mails, ferms and duties of the said lordship and barony of Newbarnshire, with the teind sheaves and others teinds and fruits of the kirk and parish thereof, as in the same, ratifying and approving the whole former tacks, rights and titles set by our said sovereign lord to the said comptroller thereof, and all conditions and provisions therein contained, of the date the 30 October 1585 likewise at more length is contained, wherefore it is necessary and expedient for his better security that the said contracts and tacks made to the said Andrew thereupon be ratified and approved in this present parliament; which supplication being at length read and advised by his majesty and estates aforesaid, our said sovereign lord and three estates of this present parliament ratify, approve and confirm the aforesaid contracts and tack respectively, whole articles, clauses, and conditions contained therein, after the form and tenor thereof in all points.