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Act in favour of the minister of Cockburnspath

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, ratifies and approves the act or decreet pronounced and made by the lords and others of the commission for surrenders and teinds regarding the plantation of the kirk of Cockburnspath, of the date 28 January 1631, whereby they modified the sum of £100 to be paid by [James Home], earl of Home, to the minister of the said kirk of Cockburnspath and his successors as a part of the stipend of the said kirk; which sum of £100 thereby augmented, being joined to the former stipend of the said kirk whereof Master George Sydserf, minister thereat, was in possession of before, extending to four chalders of victual and £100 of silver, whereof 23 bolls of oats, 19 bolls of barley and 4 bolls of wheat paid by the said earl of Home, and 18 bolls of victual, whereof 9 bolls of barley and 9 bolls of oats, with £100 of silver, paid by the parson of Oldhamstocks, beside the small teinds called the vicarage teinds estimated to be worth yearly 100 merks, which the said minister intromits with and uplifts, will make the stipend of the said kirk to be four chalders of victual and 400 merks of silver, comprehending therein the vicarage teinds which are estimated to be 100 merks, in all points, articles and clauses therein contained, after the form and tenor thereof, except in so far as the same is altered and discharged in manner following; and declares and ordains this present ratification thereof to be as sufficient in all respects as if the same were at length and word by word inserted and engrossed herein. And forasmuch as by the said decreet the making of a particular local assignation for payment of the said sum of £100 augmented as said is, and the directing of letters and charges for payment of the same, was superseded and continued until the acts and proceedings of the said commissioners in execution of the commission granted to them were exhibited to the estates of parliament and approved by them, against the which suspension and continuation there was a protestation made in presence of the said commissioners, of the date 9 February 1631, by John [Guthrie], bishop of Moray, Adam [Bellenden], bishop of Dunblane and John [Abernethy], bishop of Caithness, in their own name and in name of the other bishops and ministers throughout this kingdom, and appellation made to his majesty for redress, as the protestation made in relation to bears at length. And his majesty and estates of this present parliament, being willing that the said whole stipend, as well old stipend as augmentation thereof foresaid, be paid to the said minister and his successors, as well of the said crop and year of God 1631 as of all years and crops since and perpetually in all time coming, therefore his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, by this act, rescinds, annuls and discharges the foresaid superseding and continuation contained in the said decreet or act regarding the plantation of the said kirk, and decrees and ordains the said whole stipend, as well old stipend as augmentation thereof above-specified, to be paid to the said minister and his successors according to the said decreet of plantation, as well of the said crop 1631 and of the crop 1632 as of this instant crop 1633, and in all time coming. And ordains the said decreet of plantation and this present ratification thereof to be sufficient right and security to the said minister and his successors for possessing and enjoying of their said stipend, both old stipend and new augmentation thereof foresaid, perpetually in all time coming, ordaining this ratification to be a sufficient warrant to the clerk register and his deputes for extending of an act of parliament hereupon in due form.