[A1630/7/17]¹

Procedure: ratification of the king's decreets; asking of instruments

Ratification of his majesty's decreets upon the submissions

The estates presently convened ratify, allow and approve the four decreets given and pronounced by the king's majesty upon the general submissions made to his majesty by the prelates, lords of erection, titulars, heritors, burghs and other submitters regarding the feu mails of erections, teinds of other men's lands, rate and price thereof, and securities of the same, which decreets are of the date at Windsor, 2 September 1629, and registered in the books of privy council upon 18 September, in the whole heads, points, clauses and articles contained therein and after the form and tenor thereof in all points, and specially that part thereof whereby it is ordained that every heritor shall have his own teind and whereby the rate of the teind is appointed to be the fifth part and the price thereof nine years' purchase, and whereby it is provided that the titular shall not be deprived of his right and possession until he receive satisfaction according to the said decreets; and ordain letters of horning and other execution to pass thereupon in the appropriate form. Whereupon Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight baronet, his majesty's advocate, asked instruments.