[1633/6/193]¹

Act dissolving four prebendaries from the parish kirk of Corstorphine to the college kirk thereof

Our sovereign lord, considering that lately by the procurement of Sir George Forrester of Corstorphine, knight, any great part of the teinds of the kirk and parish of Ratho, which pertained to the four prebendaries of the kirk of Corstorphine called Half Halton, Half Dalmahoy, Half Bonnington and Half Platt, were united and annexed to the parish kirk of Corstorphine, whereof the said Sir George is patron; and now as this union is prejudicial to the said kirk of Ratho, and is contrary and repugnant to the common course and order intended for plantation of kirks, whereby it is thought fit and expedient that each minister shall receive competent maintenance out of the teinds of their own parish, whereof the kirk of Ratho will be frustrated if the said union stand, and therefore his majesty, with consent of the estates, upon the humble petition of the said Sir George Forrester of Corstorphine, knight, who was procurer of the said union, and with his consent, has annulled and annuls the union of the said teinds being within the said parish of Ratho to the said kirk of Corstorphine, and restores the same to the former titles of the said prebendaries within the college of Corstorphine to the which the same appertained before, reserving always to the said Sir George Forrester of Corstorphine, knight, his male heirs and assignees, the right of the patronage of the said four prebendaries, which are declared to pertain to them notwithstanding of this act.