[1633/6/83]¹

Act in favour of [Patrick Lindsay], archbishop of Glasgow

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of this realm convened together in parliament, ordains an act of ratification to be made in this present parliament in favour of the right reverend father in God, his majesty's trusty and well-beloved councillor Patrick, archbishop of Glasgow, ratifying and approving, and for his majesty and his successors perpetually confirming, likewise his majesty by this act and tenor of the said act ratifies and approves, and for his majesty and his successors, with advice and consent foresaid, perpetually confirms the provision and gift granted under his majesty's great seal of the date at Whitehall, 16 April 1633, in favour of the said reverend father, whereby he is translated from the seat of the bishopric of Ross to the see of the archbishopric of Glasgow, and has given, granted and conveyed to him during all the days of his lifetime the said archbishopric of Glasgow and whole benefice thereof, with all and sundry lands, lordships, baronies, castles, towers, fortalices, manor houses, buildings, yards, orchards, mills, multures, woods, fishings, kirks, teind sheaves and other teinds, feu ferms and other ferms, kanes, customs, casualties, superiorities, tenants, tenancies, service of free tenants, advocations, donations and rights of patronages, kirks, benefices and chaplainries, fruits, rents, emoluments, profits and duties whatsoever pertaining to the said archbishopric, with privilege of free regality, free chaplainry and chancellery within the whole bounds of the said archbishopric, with all privileges, liberties, dignities and immunities whatsoever pertaining and belonging thereto, which the late James [Law], archbishop of Glasgow, or any of his predecessors in any time bygone from the first foundation thereof possessed or enjoyed or might have possessed and enjoyed or annexed thereto or which may be found or known to pertain to the said archbishopric in time coming, and chiefly with advocation, donation of kirks, parsonage and vicarage of Ancrum, Askirk, Stobo and Eddiston, which are kirks and lands pertaining to the said archbishopric, and with advocation and donation of kirks, parsonage and vicarage of Kilbride and Torrance, with all fruits, rents, emoluments, profits and duties whatsoever pertaining and belonging to the said archbishopric, with all privileges, liberties, commodities and immunities whatsoever pertaining and belonging thereto, with all and whole the foresaid parsonage and vicarage of the said parish kirk and parish of Glasgow, with all and sundry mansions, houses, buildings, yards, teind sheaves and other teinds, as well great as small, fruits, rents, casualties, profits, emoluments and duties whatsoever pertaining and belonging thereto wherever they lie within this realm, as in the said gift and provision at length is contained [...], with all decreets and sentences following thereupon in the whole heads, articles, clauses, circumstances and conditions of the same, admitted this present ratification to be as valid as if the said gift and provision and decreets following thereupon were particularly inserted herein, with the not inserting whereof his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, dispenses hereby, and decrees and declares that the said gift and provision and others above-written are and shall be sufficient grounds, rights and titles, whereby the said right reverend father during all the days of his lifetime may possess and enjoy the said archbishopric with all teinds, fruits, rents, dignities and others belonging thereto in all time coming, and ordains this act to be a sufficient warrant for making of an act in the said parliament in favour of the said right reverend father in manner above-written.