[A1567/12/15]¹

Anent lauchfull mariage of the awin blude in degreis not forbiddin be Goddis worde

Item, our soverane lord, with avise and consent of my lord regent and thre estatis of this present parliament, hes statute and ordanit that the haly band of mariage maid be all estatis and sortis of man and woman to be als lauchfull and als fre as the law of God hes permittit the samin to be done, without exceptioun of person or personis; and hes declairit and declairis that secundis in degreis of consanguinitie and affinitie, and all degreis outwith the samin contenit in the word of the eternall God and that ar not repugnant to the said word, mycht and may lauchfullie marie at all tymes sen the viij day of Marche, the yeir of God ane thousand, fyve hundreth, fyftie aucht yeiris, notwithstanding ony law, statute or constitutionis maid in the contrare; and ratifyis and apprevis all the saidis mariageis done sen the said day and the bairnis gottin, or tobe gottin, in sic mariage to be als lauchfull, als weill toward thair successioun to landis, heritageis or ony uther liberteis, as ony bairnis gottin in mariage, and to be repute and estemit in all tyme to cum lauchfullie gottin in lauchfull mariage, notwithstanding ony lawis, statutis, constitutiounis or actis maid, or to be maid, in the contrare.