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Regarding the dissolution of the deanery of Restalrig

²Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament ratify and approve the dissolution of the deanery of Restalrig and division thereof in the parsonage of Lasswade and parsonage of Dalkeith made by Master George Ramsay, dean of Restalrig, with the particular provision following thereupon made by his highness to Master Archibald Simpson, minister at Dalkeith, of the parsonage of Dalkeith, which pertained of before to the deanery of Restalrig as a part of the primary thereof; and by the tenor hereof erect the said parsonage of Dalkeith in a several and distinct parsonage by the self, to remain with the said Master Archibald and his successor ministers of Dalkeith in all time coming; and likewise erect the whole remaining fruits of the said deanery of Restalrig and which pertained thereto of old in a several and distinct parsonage to be called the parsonage of Lasswade, and unite and adjoin thereto the vicarage of Lasswade when it shall happen to fall vacant, to be possessed and enjoyed by the said Master George Ramsay, minister of Lasswade, during all the days of his lifetime by virtue of his old provision to the deanery of Restalrig, and to remain with him and his successor ministers of Lasswade in all time coming.