The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 25 April 2024

[1594/4/57]1

That the temporal lands annexed to the crown shall remain therewith, and that they shall be retoured2

Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament declare and ordain that all feu lands annexed to his majesty's crown by the act of annexation remain with his majesty and crown in all time hereafter, and that all feu lands annexed or other feu lands whatsoever within this realm be retoured and valued to merk or pound lands, that his majesty may know the owner thereof; and being retoured, that when it shall happen any impost or taxation to be raised, that the said feuars shall be charged according to their retour.

  1. NAS, PA2/15, f.43r.
  2. This is preceded in the mss by another title, 'Regarding the retouring of feu lands', crossed out, with the second title written in the same hand as that of the amended title for the preceding act.