[1594/4/79]¹

Act in favour of James Smith and John Walwood, citizens of St Andrews

The king's majesty and estates of this present parliament give and grant full and free licence and liberty to James Smith and John Walwood, sometime citizens of St Andrews, to return and remain within this realm of Scotland as his highness's free lieges at their pleasure, notwithstanding of the submission and decreet arbitral passed thereupon between Master John Arthur, one of the commissioners of Edinburgh, and certain of his brother and friends on the one part, and the said James Smith and John Walwood and others, their colleagues, on the other part, of the date the [...] day of [...] the year of God 15[...], and of all pains and execution that have followed or may follow thereupon, providing within 40 days next after their arriving within this realm the said James Smith and John Walwood either offer them to abide the law before the justice or his deputes for the alleged actual striking and slaying with their own hands of the late James Arthur, brother to the said Master John, or else satisfy the party, so far as of reason can be craved, and find caution to that effect. And in case it shall happen them to come to St Andrews within the said space of 40 days next after their first arriving, that they contain themselves quiet within their houses of St Andrews so long as it shall happen them to remain there during the said space of 40 days.