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Ratification to Nicol Cairncross of Calfhill

²Our sovereign lord and his estates of parliament have ratified and approved and, for our said sovereign lord and his successors, ratify, approve and confirm the gift and disposition made by our said sovereign lord under his highness's privy seal of the date [...] day of [...] 1580, to his beloved Nicol Cairncross, son lawful to Nicol Cairncross of Calfhill, of a yearly pension of 200 merks money of this realm, to be uplifted yearly during his lifetime out of the readiest mails, ferms, profits and duties of the lands of Stobo and Eddleston, or any part thereof, due to our said sovereign lord; together with all decreets, sentences and letters passed thereupon in all and sundry clauses, heads, conditions and circumstances thereof.