The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2025), date accessed: 23 June 2025

[A1522/7/2]1

[Regarding the tacks and steadings of those that are slain, as said is]2

Item, it is statute and ordained by the whole three estates of parliament that whatsoever tenant gentleman, unlanded or yeoman, having tacks or steadings of any lords or lairds, spiritual or temporal, who happens to be slain by Englishmen in our sovereign lord's army or service, or gets deadly wounds in the same, the wives and bairns of those who shall happen to be slain or wounded to the death, as said is, shall enjoy their tacks, mailings or steadings for their sustentation during the space of five years next after the slaughter or wounding to death of the said tenants, grassum free, paying only customary mails, duties and service owed and due.

  1. NLS, H.33.c.32(1), Sir John Skene, The Lawes and Acts of Parliament maid be King James the First and his Successors Kings of Scotland, visied, collected, and extracted furth of the Register (Edinburgh, 1597), f.100v.
  2. Act titles given in printed version, which almost certainly would not have been contained in the original manuscript register.