[1641/8/523]¹

Protestation for the University and College of Glasgow against the ratification in favour of the minister and schoolmaster of Glenluce

The which day Doctor John Strang, principal of the college of Glasgow, personally present in presence of the king's majesty and estates of parliament, for himself and in name and on behalf of the regents and other masters and members of the University and College of Glasgow, protested for himself and in name and on behalf foresaid that the ratification granted by the king's majesty and estates of parliament of the date hereof in favour of a minister at the kirk of Glenluce and a schoolmaster thereat, of the gift and mortification granted by our sovereign lord to the said minister and schoolmaster at Glenluce of the precinct and rooms of the abbey of Glenluce, for a manse and glebe to the minister, and of the sum of 1,000 merks Scots money of stipend yearly out of the bishops' rents within the parish of Glenluce, and of the sum of 200 merks yearly out of the rents of the bishopric of Galloway to a schoolmaster at Glenluce, as the said act of ratification in the self more fully purports, should be always without prejudice to the said University and College of Glasgow, and to the said principal, regents and other masters and members of the same university and college and their successors regarding the gift and mortification granted by the king's majesty to the principal, professors, regents and other members thereof, of the rents, teinds and other duties pertaining to the late bishopric of Galloway, abbacy of Tongland, priory of Whithorn and abbacy of Glenluce, annexed to the said bishopric of Galloway, and regarding the ratification thereof granted by the king's majesty and estates of parliament in favour of the said University and College of Glasgow, and regarding all other right and title whatsoever competent to the same University and College of Glasgow, principal, professors, regents and other members thereof to the teinds, rents and duties of the foresaid bishopric of Galloway, abbacies and priory above-written annexed thereto, and that the same gift and mortification with the ratification thereof foresaid granted in favour of the said University and College of Glasgow, and all other right pertaining or competent to them as said is, be in no way prejudiced, hurt nor in any way impaired by the foresaid gift and mortification granted in favour of the minister and schoolmaster at Glenluce, nor by the ratification thereof above-mentioned; and hereupon the said Doctor John Strang, personally present, for himself and in name and on behalf foresaid, asked instruments.