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Ratification in favour of Master Laurence Scott [of Harperrig]

Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament ratify and approve the two separate infeftments and charters both made, given and granted by our sovereign lord the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his highness's treasurers, comptrollers and collectors principal and deputies and other lords of his highness's exchequer of Scotland, his highness's commissioners, the one thereof to and in favour of the late Laurence Scott of Harperrig, advocate, his male heirs and assignees whatsoever heritably, of all and sundry the lands of two Bavelaws, alias Bewlais, commonly called Easter and Wester Bavelaw, with the tower, fortalice, manor place, houses, buildings, yards, meadows, parts, pendicles and pertinents thereof whatsoever, lying within the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, upon the resignation of the late Sir Walter Dundas of that Ilk, knight, to be held of his majesty and his highness's successors in fee and heritage in manner specified in the said charter, which is under his highness's great seal of the date 15 March 1628; and the other of the said charters made and granted to Master Laurence Scott, now of Bavelaw, third lawful son to the said late Laurence Scott, then of Harperrig and the male heirs then lawfully to have been procreated of his own body, which failing, to Master William Scott of Clerkington, eldest lawful son to the said late Laurence, and his nearest and lawful male heirs and assignees whatsoever heritably, of all and sundry the lands and others underwritten, namely: of all and sundry the lands of Buteland and Buteland Hill, comprehending therein the lands of Overton of Buteland, the lands of Nether Town of Buteland, the lands of Buteland Hill and the lands of Loanhead, with all and sundry the houses, buildings, yards, tofts, crofts, outsets, parts, pendicles and pertinents thereof whatsoever, lying within the parish of Currie and the said sheriffdom of Edinburgh; and of all and sundry the said lands of the two Bavelaws, alias Bewlais, commonly called Easter and Wester Bavelaw, with the tower, fortalice, manor place, houses, buildings, yards, meadows, parts, pendicles and pertinents thereof whatsoever, lying as said is, upon the resignation of the said late Laurence Scott, to be held of our said sovereign lord and his highness's successors in fee and heritage forever in manner specified in the said charter, which is under his highness's great seal of the date 14 December 1635, as the said two charters of the dates respectively foresaid in themselves at more length bear; with the procuratories and instruments of resignation whereon the said charters and either of them proceeded and precepts of sasine and instruments of sasine following upon the said charters, and either of them, of whatsoever dates, tenor or contents the same be of in all and sundry the heads, points, clauses, articles, circumstances and conditions contained therein, and after the forms and tenors thereof in all points. And our said sovereign lord and estates of parliament will and grant and, for his highness and his successors, decree and ordain that this present ratification of the said charters and rights specially and generally above-written is and shall be of as great force, strength and effect to the said Master Laurence Scott, his male heirs and of tailzie above-specified, for possessing and holding of the said lands and others above-written in manner contained therein perpetually, as if the same charters and rights were all at length word for word herein engrossed and contained, notwithstanding the same be not so done, concerning which, and with all other defects, imperfections and objections which may be proposed against the said charters and rights, or any of them, and validities of the same, or this present ratification thereof, our said sovereign lord and estates of parliament have dispensed and by this ratification dispense for ever.