[1605/6/109]¹

Annexation of the parsonage and vicarage of Glasgow to the archbishopric thereof

Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, having consideration that the rents and yearly profits of the archbishopric of Glasgow are greatly exhausted by feus, pensions and otherwise, and that for supply thereof his highness was pleased to provide John [Spottiswood], now archbishop of Glasgow, to the parsonage and vicarage of the same and to the whole fruits, rents, duties, emoluments and casualties belonging thereto during his lifetime, for diverse weighty causes and considerations moving his highness and estates foresaid, unites, annexes and incorporates the said parsonage and vicarage of Glasgow, with the whole fruits, rents, duties, emoluments and casualties of the same, to the said archbishopric of Glasgow, to remain therewith forever, inseparably, as a proper part and pertinent of the patrimony thereof, so that the provision made, or to be made, by his highness to the said John, now archbishop, and his successors of the said bishopric shall be, in all time coming, as valuable and sufficient to them for possessing, enjoying, uplifting and receiving the whole fruits, rents and emoluments of the said parsonage and vicarage of Glasgow, or otherwise using, setting and disposing the same as the said archbishop or any of his predecessors have possessed, enjoyed, uplifted, received and used any of the old and ancient rents and fruits annexed and incorporated to the said archbishopric by the former foundations in any time bygone. And to that effect his majesty, with advice of the said estates, dissolves the said benefices of the parsonage and vicarage of Glasgow from his highness's crown in so far as the same were several benefices by themselves, willing and ordaining the same to be and be esteemed a proper part and patrimony of the said archbishopric of Glasgow, and to be conjoined with the presentation of the said archbishopric in all time coming, without prejudice always of [Walter Stewart], lord Blantyre and his son's tacks of the parsonage and vicarage of Glasgow.