The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 28 March 2024
[1600/11/15]1
2Protestation for [Andrew Leslie], earl of Rothes
The which day, in presence of our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, compeared Masters John Sharp and Robert Learmonth, procurators for a right noble and mighty earl, Andrew, earl of Rothes, lord Leslie, and produced an acquittance and discharge made to him and the late Dame Jean Ruthven, his spouse, by the late William [Ruthven], lord Ruthven, as tutor testamentar to the late Henry [Stewart], lord Methven, by the which the said late William, lord Ruthven, as tutor testamentar foresaid, granted him to have received from the said noble earl and his said spouse the heirship goods pertaining to the said late Henry, lord Methven, which are particularly specified in the foresaid discharge, and further granted him as tutor testamentar foresaid to have received full and complete payment and deliverance from the said noble earl of all other goods and gear intromitted with by him and his said late spouse which in any way pertained to the said late Lord Methven, and exonerated and discharged them thereof and also bound and obliged him, his heirs and successors to warrant and keep them undamaged of the same at all hands, as in the said acquittance and discharge bearing the foresaid obligation of warrandice of the date at Methven, 18 January 1574 [1575], which the said procurators procured in judgement, at more length is contained, and protested that the process and doom of forfeiture led and given against John [Ruthven], sometime earl of Gowrie, heir by progress and successor to the said late William, lord Ruthven should in no way hurt the said Andrew, earl of Rothes, his heirs and successors regarding the said acquittance and discharge but that he, his heirs and successors might be relieved of the said heirship goods and other goods contained therein at the hands of the heirs and successors of the said late Henry, lord Methven by reason of the deliverance of the same made by the said Andrew, earl of Rothes to the said late William, lord Ruthven, tutor testamentar foresaid, who at that time justly might have received the same being tutor testamentar as said is; which protestation our said sovereign lord and his said estates in parliament have admitted and admit according to the law.
- NAS, PA2/16, f.13v.
- 'P' written in margin beside heading.