The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 28 March 2024
[1594/4/97]1
Ratification to [Sir James Douglas], laird of Drumlanrig
Our sovereign lord and three estates of this parliament, understanding that his highness after his perfect age of 25 years complete and last and general revocation in the month of January the year of God 1591 [1592], by his highness's charter under the great seal, has given, granted and conveyed to Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig, knight, and his male heirs whatsoever bearing the surname of Douglas and arms of the house of Drumlanrig, all and sundry the lands, baronies and others underwritten, with castles, towers, fortalices, manor places, woods, mills, multures, fishings, tenants, tenancies and service of free tenants, advocation, donation and right of patronages of kirks and chaplainries, outsets, parts, pendicles, annexes, connexes, dependancies and pertinents thereof and others after-specified, namely: all and whole the lands and barony of Drumlanrig, with castles, towers, fortalices, manor places, corn mills and waulk mills and sucken of the same, woods, parks, fishings on the water of Nith and their pertinents, lying within the sheriffdom of Dumfries; all and whole the lands and barony of Tibbers, with the castle and castle moat thereof, with the corn mills and waulk mills of the same, tenants, tenancies and service of free tenants of the same and all their pertinents; all and whole the ten merk land of old extent of the town of Dalgarnock; all and whole the fifty shilling land of the same extent of Glencorse and Drumfoidyeane, with the pertinents, lying within the said sheriffdom of Dumfries; all and whole the lands and barony of Hawick, as well as property as tenancy, namely: in property the town of Hawick, with the mill thereof, the lands of East Manys, West Manys, Crumhaugh and Kirtoun of Manys, the Flex, Maisterayneis, Ramsaycleugh, Braidley, Teindside, Carling Pule and Almondslands, and in tenancy the lands of Howpasley, Chisholme, Whitehope, Dryden, Commonside, Over Harwood, Emeschellis, Nether Harwood, Weyndislandis, Easter and Wester Hislop, Langhaugh, Laws, Tofts, Kirkwood, Harwoodhill, Whitchester, Fenwick, Adderston, Adderstonshiel and Whames, with tenants, tenancy, service of free tenants, advocation, donation and right of patronage of kirks and chaplainries of the same; and all and sundry their pertinents lying within the sheriffdom of Roxburgh; all and whole the lands of Knock, Auchenskeoch, Meikleholm, Curew, Dulfibbill and two Garwalds, extending in the whole to a forty-eight pound land of old extent, with mills, multures, tenants, tenancies and service of free tenants of the same and the pertinents, lying within the barony of Kirkmichael and sheriffdom of Dumfries foresaid; all and whole the ten pound land of Carruthers, Downnabie and Kirktilclosch, with the pertinents, lying within the stewartry of Annandale; all and whole the twenty pound land of old extent of Mouswald, Howquhat and Haitland Hill, with the tower, fortalice, mills, advocation and donation of the kirk of Mouswald; all and whole the twenty pound land of Logan, tenement, with the mills and pertinents; all and whole the ten pound land of old extent of Dronnok, with the half of the fishing of the same; all and whole the forty shilling land of Cummertrees; all and whole the merk land of Stanereis; all and whole the twenty pound land of Pendersax, with advocation and donation of the kirk of the same; all and whole the ten pound land of Middlebie, with advocation and donation of the kirk of the same; all and whole the five merk land of West Skalis; all and whole the two merk land of old extent of Hoddom; all and whole the merk land of the Holmes of Annan called the Blewberrielandis; all and whole the merk land of Westwood; all and whole the twenty shilling land of Redhall, with castles, towers, fortalices, manor places, mills, multures, tenants, tenancies, service of free tenants of all and sundry the said lands lying within the said stewartry of Annandale; all and whole the ten pound land of old extent of Almerness, with the manor place, houses, buildings, fishings, fish enclosures and pertinents; all and whole the five merk land of old extent of Craigmuie, with manor place, houses, buildings, parts, pendicles and pertinents lying within the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, together with the advocation, donation of the parish kirks and parishes of Kirkbride and Durisdeer, all united, annexed, created and incorporated of before in a whole and free barony of Drumlanrig; and also all and whole the five merk land of Airds, with the pertinents, lying within the barony of Crossmichael and stewartry of Kirkcudbright, together with the advocation and donation of the parish kirk and parish of Glencairn, both parsonage and vicarage, lying within the said sheriffdom of Dumfries; and has united the said five merk land of Airds with the advocation and donation of the said parish kirk of Glencairn in and to the said barony of Drumlanrig; and also has conveyed to the said Sir James and his male heirs foresaid the advocation and donation of the parish kirks of Penpont, Morton and Dalgarnock lying within the said sheriffdom of Dumfries, and has united the same with the said barony of Drumlanrig, to remain with the said Sir James and his heirs foresaid; and has erected the said whole lands and baronies and others respectively foresaid in a free regality with free chapel and chancellery within the bounds thereof, with all privileges, liberties and jurisdictions of the said regality likewise and as freely in all respects as any regality has within this realm, as the said charter of union and erection of the date foresaid at more length purports; therefore our said sovereign lord, with advice of the said estates of parliament, has ratified, approved and confirmed and by the tenor hereof, for his highness and his successors, ratifies, approves and perpetually confirms the said charter, donation, union and erection therein contained with all and sundry points, passages, clauses, articles and conditions specified therein, and with all other infeftments, rights and titles whatsoever made and granted to the said Sir James and his foresaids of the forenamed baronies and others before rehearsed; and decrees and declares the same to be a perpetual right to the said Sir James and his male heirs foresaid of the whole lands, baronies and others particularly above contained, and to be as sufficient as if the said charter were at length inserted herein. Providing always that the said Sir James shall resign and renounce the advocation and donation of the said parish kirk of Dalgarnock to Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, his heirs and assignees, otherwise this present ratification and the said charter shall not be extended to the said advocation and donation of the said kirk but the same shall be null in that point only.
- NAS, PA2/15, f.54r-55r.