[1594/4/73]¹

Act in favour of [Alexander Livingston], lord Livingston

Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, understanding that Francis [Hay], sometime earl of Erroll is indebted to Alexander, lord Livingston in diverse great sums of money resting owed by the said Francis, sometime earl of Erroll, to him as proper debt, and also that the said Alexander, lord Livingston stands obliged as cautioner and surety for the said Francis, sometime earl of Erroll, for payment of great sums of money to sundry persons and for warrandice of certain lands and annualrents sold and alienated by the said Francis, sometime earl of Erroll of before, so that the said Alexander, lord Livingston, by the doom and sentence of forfeiture given and pronounced in this present parliament against the said Francis, sometime earl of Erroll, shall incur and sustain great damage unless timeous remedy be provided. And our said sovereign lord and estates, being of mind that the said Alexander, lord Livingston be not prejudiced by the said forfeiture, therefore, and for remedy thereof, our said sovereign lord, by the council and advice of the said three estates, in recompense and satisfaction of the said sums of money resting unpaid to the said Alexander, lord Livingston, and for his relief of the foresaid cautionary, find and conclude by the tenor of this present act an infeftment to be made and granted to the said Alexander, lord Livingston, his heirs and assignees whatsoever heritably by his highness in due form of all and whole the lands and barony of Logre,² with free regality and privilege of the same, with the tower, fortalice, manor place, yards, orchards, mills, fishings, parts, pendicles, annexes, connexes, tenants, tenancies, service of free tenants thereof and all their pertinents, lying within the stewartry of Strathearn and sheriffdom of Fife, which pertained of before to the said Francis, sometime earl of Erroll, and now pertaining to our said sovereign lord, fallen and become in his highness's hands through process and doom of forfeiture orderly led and prosecuted against the said Francis, sometime earl of Erroll, for certain crimes of treason, lese-majesty committed by him whereof he was convicted in this present parliament; and to that effect, our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid by this act dissolve the said lands, barony and other particularly above-written.