[1585/12/75]¹

Ratification of the office of treasury to Thomas [Lyon], master of Glamis

²Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, ratifies, approves and confirms for him and his successors the gift and disposition of the office of treasury given and granted to Thomas Lyon of Baldukie, master of Glamis, by demission thereof in our sovereign lord's hands by John [Graham], earl of Montrose, lord Graham, late treasurer, to the effect the said John may enjoy the said office enduring his lifetime; and decrees and declares the said gift to have full strength, force and effect in all time coming after the form and tenor thereof, of the which the tenor follows:

James, by the grace of God, king of Scots, to all and sundry our subjects and lieges whom it concerns whose knowledge these our letters shall come, greeting. Know you us to have made, constituted and ordained Master Thomas Lyon of Baldukie, master of Glamis, our treasurer, and give him the office thereof for all the days of his lifetime, with all and sundry honours, privileges, fees, duties and casualties belonging thereto, and in special the sum of £1,000 in yearly pension for exercising of the said office, to be uplifted by him of the first and readiest of our casualties aforesaid at two terms in year, Whitsunday [May/June] and Martinmas [11 November] in winter, by equal portions, beginning the first payment at this last Martinmas in this present year of God 1585 and so forth yearly and termly enduring his lifetime, to be thankfully allowed to him in his yearly accounts by the lords thereof, whom we charge to allow and discharge yearly to him the said sum of £1,000 as pension aforesaid, this letter being once shown upon account and registered in the rolls as appropriate; with power to our said treasurer to use and exercise the said office, possess and enjoy the said honours, privileges and pension likewise and as freely in all respects as any others his highness's treasurer did or might have done at any time by virtue of the said office, with all and sundry commodities, freedoms, etc., freely, quietly, etc., providing always that this letter prejudice not our trusty councillor, Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairnie, knight, in his office of treasurer depute and clerk, given him and confirmed in parliament, but that this may notwithstanding hereof use and exercise his said offices, intromit with and uplift the duties thereof specified in his said gift likewise and as freely as he did of before; given under our privy seal at Linlithgow on 2 December 1585 and of our reign the 19th year, providing always that the said gift in no way hurt nor prejudice Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairnie, knight, concerning his office of depute in the said office; but declare the same to stand in full strength and effect, and the same in no way to hurt and prejudice him during his lifetime.