The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 28 March 2024
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Act in favour of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight baronet
Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament ratify and approve the act of commission of surrenders and teinds, of the date at Holyroodhouse, 18 March 1631, whereof the tenor follows: The which day Master Walter Buchanan, minister of Ceres, craved of the commissioners for the surrenders and teinds that seeing the lands and barony of Kininmonth and lands of Arnydie pertaining heritably to Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight baronet, his majesty's advocate, were of old a part of the parish of St Andrews and were lately united to the kirk of Ceres, and the union thereof ratified in parliament, that the said Sir Thomas Hope, his heirs and successors might be tied for the said united lands and barony to contribute to the ordinary burdens due to a parish kirk for reparation thereof and building and repairing the kirk dykes, and that the vicarage teinds of the said barony, the rate whereof extends to £14 6s 8d, might be applied to the use of the said kirk of Ceres. With the which desire the said commissioners being well and ripely advised, and they having seen the warrant and act of the said union ratified in parliament, the said commissioners have therefore ratified, allowed and approved and, by this act, ratify, allow and approve the said union in all points and declare the said Sir Thomas, his heirs and successors to be free of all burden, tax or other contribution at the kirk of St Andrews and to be subject to the reparation of the kirk and kirkyard dykes of the said kirk of Ceres in all time coming; and ordain the rate and duty of the vicarage teinds of the said lands and barony of Kininmonth to pertain to the said kirk of Ceres in all time to come, to be applied to the maintenance of the reader and schoolmaster at Ceres. Whereupon the said Master Walter Buchanan, minister at Ceres, asked instruments. Extracted from the aforesaid books of the acts of the commission by me, James Primrose, clerk of the same, under my sign and subscription manual. And his majesty and estates foresaid will and ordain that the said Sir Thomas and his successors are, and shall be, free of all burden, tax or other contribution at the kirk of St Andrews and to be subject to the reparation of the kirk and kirkyard dykes of the said kirk of Ceres in all time coming; and ordain the rate and duty of the vicarage teinds of the said lands and barony of Kininmonth to pertain to the kirk of Ceres in all time to come, to be applied to the maintenance of the reader and schoolmaster at Ceres. And this act to take effect after the date hereof only.
- NAS, PA2/21, f.100r-v.