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Ratification in favour of James Dunbar

Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament ratify and approve the act of adjournal given and pronounced before the justice, of the date 29 July 1636, by the which Patrick Dunbar of Kilboyack and Alexander Dunbar, apparent heir of Braco, with certain others, their servants and accomplices, are declared and adjudged fugitives from his majesty's laws at the instance of the widows and bairns, kin and friends of the late Ninian Dunbar and of the late Robert Dunbar, and at the instance of his majesty's advocate, for the cruel murder and slaughter of the said late Ninian and Robert Dunbar by the said Patrick and Alexander Dunbar, their servants and accomplices, under trust and assurance in manner mentioned in the criminal letters raised thereupon and act and doom foresaid; together with the signatures of escheats and infeftments granted to James Dunbar, son to William Dunbar of Hempriggs, of the escheat and lands pertaining to the said persons denounced as said is, vacant in his majesty's hands through the said doom given upon the crime foresaid, being murder under trust, which is declared to be treasonable by the act of parliament made in the year of God 1587, chapter 51, entitled, 'Murder or slaughter under credit is treason', in the whole heads, points and articles thereof. And his majesty and estates declare this ratification to be as sufficient as if the said act of adjournal, gifts and infeftments were inserted word for word, concerning which, his majesty and estates dispense and that the same shall be good and valid rights, in the same way as if the said parties had been doomed in parliament.