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Act regarding the parsonage of Dalkeith and payment of the taxation thereof

Our sovereign lord and the three estates of this present parliament, considering that the teinds of the town, lands, lordship and barony of Dalkeith, the fruits, rents and emoluments thereof, have been dissolved from the deanery of Restalrig, whereof the said teinds were a part of old, and have been erected in a separate parsonage, called the parsonage of Dalkeith, and that the dissolution and erection are ratified in the parliament held at Edinburgh on 5 June 1592, and that notwithstanding thereof, the parsons of the said parsonage of Dalkeith have been stented by the deans of Restalrig to the third part of the taxations imposed on the said deanery of Restalrig, and have paid the same third part of the said taxations in time bygone to the said deans of Restalrig and parsons of Lasswade, whereas of equity the said parsons of Dalkeith should have paid the taxation of the said parsonage of Dalkeith to his majesty's collector, in respect of the dissolution of the said parsonage of Dalkeith from the said deanery of Restalrig and erection thereof in a separate parsonage by itself. Therefore, our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, statutes and ordains that the parsonage of Dalkeith in all time coming shall pay to his majesty's collector general and his deputes the just third part of the taxation imposed and to be imposed on the said deanery of Restalrig, and that the said parsons of Dalkeith shall not be subject to pay the third part of the said taxation of the said deanery of Restalrig, neither to the said deans of Restalrig nor no other person nor persons, except only his majesty's collector general and his deputes.