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Act of dissolution of Lugton and Melville from the parish of St Andrews, and union thereof to Dalkeith and Lasswade

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, by this act ratifies and approves the act made before the lords and others of his majesty's commission appointed for surrenders and teinds and dissolving and uniting of kirks, of the date 8 February 1632, whereby they suppressed, extinguished and dissolved the parish kirk and parish of St Andrews mentioned therein, and dismembered, dissolved and disjoined the towns and lands of Lugton and Melville, with their pertinents, whole lands, teinds, fruits, profits and emoluments thereof from the said kirk of St Andrews, and united, annexed and incorporated the said whole teinds, parsonage and vicarage, of the said town and lands of Lugton to the parish kirk of Dalkeith to remain therewith in all time coming inseparably, and astricted and ordained the whole inhabitants of Lugton and their successors to repair and resort to the said parish kirk of Dalkeith in the same form and manner as they ought and should have done at any time bygone before the said dissolution at the foresaid kirk of St Andrews and to be subject to the discipline thereof; and also united, annexed and incorporated the said whole teinds, parsonage and vicarage, of the said town and lands of Melville to the parish kirk of Lasswade to remain therewith in all time thereafter inseparably, and astricted and ordained the whole inhabitants of Melville and their successors to repair to the said parish kirk of Lasswade in the same form and manner as they ought and should have done before the said dissolution at the said kirk of St Andrews, and to be subject to the discipline thereof, under the reservation and provision after-mentioned therein contained, in all and sundry points, heads, articles and clauses therein contained after the form and tenor thereof; and wills and grants and, for his majesty and his successors, with consent foresaid, decrees and ordains that this present ratification of the foresaid act is and shall be as valid, effectual and sufficient in all respects as if the same act were at length inserted herein, dispensing hereby with the not inserting thereof in this present ratification. And also his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, has suppressed, extinguished and dissolved and, by the tenor hereof, suppresses, extinguishes and dissolves the said parish kirk and parish of St Andrews in all time coming, and has dismembered, disunited and disjoined and, by this act, dismembers, disunites and disjoins the foresaid towns and lands of Lugton and Melville, with their pertinents, whole lands, teinds, fruits, profits and emoluments thereof from the said kirk of St Andrews, and unites, annexes and incorporates the said whole teinds, parsonage and vicarage, of the said town and lands of Lugton to the said parish kirk of Dalkeith, to remain therewith in all time coming inseparably; and astricts and ordains the whole inhabitants of Lugton and their successors to repair and resort to the said parish kirk of Dalkeith in the same form and manner as they ought and should have done at any time bygone before the said dissolution at the said kirk of St Andrews and to be subject to the discipline thereof, and also unites, annexes and incorporates the said whole teinds, parsonage and vicarage, of the said town and lands of Melville to the said parish kirk of Lasswade, to remain therewith inseparably in all time coming, and astricts and ordains the whole inhabitants of Melville and their successors to repair to the said parish kirk of Lasswade in the same form and manner as they ought and should have done before the said dissolution at the foresaid kirk of St Andrews and to be subject to the discipline thereof; reserving always to Master James Porteous, minister at Lasswade and St Andrews, titular during his lifetime, the teinds, rents, fruits, mails and duties therefore, and providing that William [Douglas], earl of Morton etc., his heirs and assignees, relieve him of his majesty's ordinary taxation of the teinds of the lands of Lugton above-specified, with the pertinents. And ordains this act to be a sufficient warrant to the clerk register and his deputes for extending of an act of parliament hereupon in due and competent form.