[1587/7/106]¹

Act in favour of the pensioners of the archbishopric of St Andrews

²Our sovereign lord, understanding that in the parliament in August 1584 there was an act made in favour of a reverend father Patrick [Adamson], archbishop of St Andrews, abrogating and annulling diverse pensions conveyed by the said reverend father himself to sundry particular persons out of the said benefice, they never being lawfully called nor convicted of any crime, whereby they were compelled, to their great hurt, to seek their said pensions to be renewed, confirmed and conveyed of new to them by the said reverend father, likewise the said reverend father has of new conveyed the said pensions to the said persons for the most part, albeit of before they had the same lawfully confirmed by our sovereign lord, with decreets of the lords of session and possession following thereupon; therefore, with advice of his highness's three estates of parliament, retreats and annuls the said former act and declares that the rights of all pensions conveyed lawfully out of the said benefice of before shall be as valid and effectual to the possessors and titulars thereof for the peaceable possessing of the said pensions of all terms past and to come during their lifetimes, according to their rights, as if the said act had never been made.