[1594/4/77]¹

Act in favour of John Andrew

Our sovereign lord, with advice of the estates of this present parliament, ratifies and approves the gift and disposition made by his highness to his daily servant John Andrew, writer, of a yearly pension of 200 merks and assigned to be paid out of the readiest of the silver mails and fishings of the abbacy of Kinloss in all and sundry points, articles and clauses expressed therein, and also for the said John's further security, of new gives, grants and conveys the same pension to him during the said space, decreeing and declaring by this act that the same gift is and shall be good and effectual to him, and that he, by virtue thereof, shall possess and uptake the said pension of all years and terms bygone resting owed unpaid, and likewise yearly and termly in time coming during all the days of his lifetime, notwithstanding the act of secret council made in the month of February the year of God 1587 [1588], ratification thereof in parliament or any other acts of parliament, secret council, session or exchequer made at any time before or since then, which acts his highness and his said estates decree and declare is not nor shall not be extended to the hurt, prejudice or annulling of the gift foresaid; neither is nor shall the same be extended nor interpreted to the prejudice thereof in any point, nor yet is the said gift of that nature as by the foresaid acts or any of them may be called in doubt or question or otherwise annulled or discharged by any manner of way.