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Ratification in favour of the burgh of Glasgow of their infeftments

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of this present parliament, has ratified and approved and, by this legislation, ratifies and approves the charter and infeftment made and granted by his majesty, with advice and consent of his highness's treasurer, comptroller and collector general and treasurer of his highness's new augmentations of this kingdom of Scotland, and of the other lords of his highness's exchequer for the time, whereby his majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, has ratified and approved diverse and sundry charters, infeftments, precepts, instruments of sasine, confirmations, acts, sentences, decreets, donations, mortifications, rights of patronage and other rights, titles, evidents and other securities, liberties, commodities, privileges and others particularly and generally expressed therein, made and granted to the burgh and city of Glasgow, provost, bailies, dean of guild, treasurer, council and community of the same and their successors by his majesty or by whatsoever his majesty's most noble progenitors, kings, queens, princes and stewarts of Scotland, their regents and governors for the time, or by the lords of council and session and college of justice, and with all and sundry acts of burghs, other acts, rights, liberties and possessions in any way possessed of before by the said burgh of Glasgow and kirks, colleges, ministers and hospitals within the same, in manner specified in the said charter, whereby also his majesty, with consent of his highness's said treasurer, comptroller and collector and other lords of exchequer for the time, his highness's commissioners, has given, granted and conveyed with a clause of novodamus to the provost, bailies, council and community of the said burgh of Glasgow and to their successors for ever, all and whole the said burgh and city of Glasgow, with all and sundry lands, houses, buildings, tenements, yards, orchards, kirks, kirk yards, patronages, chaplains, chapels, teinds, walls, ports², gates, passages, calsays, acres, ruids, burns, tofts, crofts, infield, outfield, territory and community of the same, mills, mill lands, multures, sequels, sucken, thirlage, dams, inlairs³, lades⁴ and watergangs⁵, hills, salmon fishings and other fishings⁶, the water and river of Clyde, hospitals, correction houses, muirs, mosses, greens, commonties, loans, bridges, coals, coal pits, lime, limestone, annualrents, feu mails, feu ferms, duties, mansions, fruits, emoluments, foundations, donations, presentations, mortifications, alms, dail-silver⁷ and other privileges and immunities, as well ecclesiastical as secular, belonging thereto, and with liberty and privilege in the water of Clyde, in manner specified in the said charter, creating the said burgh in a free burgh royal and giving to the said burgh a correction house and with that house called the Lipperhouse and St Ninian's Hospital, with sundry liberties and privileges, and with the customs and duties belonging to the said burgh, and making the provost, bailies, council and community of the said burgh and their successors heritable patrons of the Trongate kirk of Glasgow, as in the said charter, containing diverse other gifts, heads, clauses and donations in favour of the said burgh of Glasgow, provost, bailies, council and community thereof and their successors, of the date at Newmarket, 16 October 1636, at more length is contained, in all and sundry heads, clauses and circumstances thereof, together with the precept and instrument of sasine following thereupon and all that has followed or may follow upon the same. Moreover, our said sovereign lord, with consent foresaid of the estates of this present parliament, decrees and ordains that the foresaid rights, securities, privileges and others expressed in the said charter now ratified and approved are and shall be good and valid rights to the provost, bailies, council and community of the said burgh of Glasgow and to their successors for possessing and enjoying of the same perpetually in all time coming, without trouble or impediment according to the tenors thereof in all points.