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<HEAD>&leaf; Act of Parliament anent regi&s;tra|tion <HI>of Sea&s;ings.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IN the Parliament haldin at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> the fifthtene day of Nouember, the &yogh;eir of God, Ane thou&s;and &s;ex hundreth &yogh;eiris. OVR SOVERANE LORD and E&s;tatis of Parliament, for e&s;chewing of fal&s;ets, and for &s;ecuritie of all the Lieges, Statutis and or|daines that in all time comming, All in&s;truments of Sea&s;ing, Rever&s;ions, Regres, Bands or promi&s;es for giuing of Rever&s;ions or regres, Di&s;charges of Rever&s;ions, A&s;&s;ignations to Rever&s;ions, Intimations of the &s;amin, Renunciations of wod&s;ettis, and graunts of Redemption, quhilks &s;all not be regi&s;trate in the buikes of Councell and Se&s;&s;ion, with|in fourty dayes next after the making and perfiting of the &s;amin, (except and alwaies Sea&s;ings of Burrow land, halden in frie burgage, giuen vpon Re&s;ignation made in the Bail&yogh;ies hands, conforme to the act of Parliament.) Be in&s;ert and regi&s;trate in the regi|&s;ters pre&s;ently appointed to that effect, within the fore&s;aide &s;pace of fourtie dayes after they be perfited, vtherwaies to be nul, and to make no faith in judgement, nor out-with. And the &s;aid nullitie to be receaued by way of exception. And the &s;aids Regi&s;ters for the greater ea&s;e of the Lieges, to be e&s;tabli&s;hed in particular places following. That is to &s;ay, ane in the towne of <HI>Kirkwall</HI> in <HI>Orknay,</HI> for the haill inhabi|tants and landly and within the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Orknay</HI> and <HI>Shetland.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Innernes,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Innernes</HI> and <HI>Cromartie</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Elgin,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Elgin, Forres</HI> and <HI>Narne</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Aberdein,</HI> for the &s;hirefdomes of <HI>Aberdein; Baumf,</HI> and <HI>Kinkardin.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Dundie,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Forfare</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Perth,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Perth,</HI> and &s;tewartrie of <HI>Stratherne</HI> (except and the &s;tewar|try of <HI>Menteith.</HI>) Ane in the burgh of <HI>Striuiling,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Striuiling, Clakmannan,</HI> and &s;tewartry of <HI>Menteith.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Cowper</HI> in <HI>Fyfe,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Fyfe</HI> and <HI>Kinro&s;her.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> principall, and Con&s;tabularie of <HI>Hadingtoun.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Linlithgow,</HI> for the &s;hiref|domes of <HI>Linlithgow</HI> and <HI>Bathcat.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Lawder,</HI> for the &s;hirefdomes of <HI>Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peibles,</HI> and bail&yogh;erie of <HI>Lawderdaill.</HI> Ane in the towne of <HI>Hammiltoun,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Lanrick,</HI> (except and the burgh and barronie of <HI>Gla&s;gow.</HI>) Ane in the cittie of <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> for the barronies of <HI>Gla&s;gow</HI> and <HI>Renfrew.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Dum|bertane;</HI> for the &s;hirefdomes of <HI>Dumbertane, Bute, Argyle, Arrane,</HI> and <HI>Tarbet.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Air,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Air,</HI> and bail&yogh;eries of <HI>Kyle, Karrick,</HI> and <HI>Cuninghame</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Wigtoun,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Wigtoun.</HI> Ane in the burgh of <HI>Dumfreis,</HI> for the &s;hirefdome of <HI>Dumfreis,</HI> and &s;tewartries of <HI>Kirkcuthbright,</HI> and <HI>Annandaill.</HI> Or ony vther place or places mair convenient, as the keipers of the &s;aids Regi&s;ters &s;all thinke mai&s;t expedient, dew intimation being made to the lieges of the &s;amin: and the &s;aids evidents to be regi&s;trate in the particular buikes appointed for ilk &s;hirefdome, as &s;aid is. And to the effect the &s;aid office may pre&s;ently and in all time comming be the mair faithfully ad|mini&s;trate, <HI>STATVTES</HI> and ordaynes the &s;amin to be annext and incorporate with the office of Secretarie: and the fore&s;aids regi&s;ters to be called the regi&s;ters of the Secretary in all time comming. And that the Secretare pre&s;ent, and to come, haue the &s;aid office as ane proper part and pertinent of the &s;aid &s;ecretarie: make and con&s;titute particular de|puties, ane, or mae, for all the dayes of their lifetime, or vtherwayes as he &s;all thinke expedient, in euery ane of the places fore&s;aides, of gude fame, literature, and conuer&s;ation, for quhome he &s;all be an&s;werable, and quha &s;all be re&s;ident within the &s;aids townes and burghes: ready at all times to receaue from the pairties their euidents, and to regi&s;trate the &s;amin within the &s;pace of twenty foure houres, next after the receit thereof. And deliuer to the pre&s;enter of the &s;amin, their e|vidents marked by him, with the day, moneth, and &yogh;eir of the regi&s;tration, and in what leaf of the booke the &s;amin is re|gi&s;trate: and &s;al take allanerlie for his paines, the &s;owme of threttein &s;hilings and foure pennies, as for the price of ilk leaf of his regi&s;ter, written on baith the &s;ydes. And according thereto, &s;all take proportionally for regi&s;tring of euery ane of the &s;aids euidents. And the &s;aids regi&s;ters to be filled by the &s;aids deputes, to be marked by the Secretare or his deputes to be appointed by him for that effect, with ane note of the particular nomber of the leafes that the &s;amin &s;all conteine. And the &s;aids regi&s;ters after the filling of the &s;amin, to be reported to the &s;aid Secretare, to remaine with him, and to be patent to all our Souerane Lords lieges that &s;all haue adoe with the &s;amin. The extract of the quhilk regi&s;ter &s;all haue as great faith and &s;trength, as gif the originall were &s;hawin, except the pairties hauing entres to oppone again&s;t the &s;aids wrytis, offer to improue the &s;amin by way of action or exception. In the quhilk ca&s;e the pairty purcha&s;er of the &s;aids e|vidents, and vthers hauand entres to defend the &s;amin, &s;all be holden to produce the principall and originall, notwith|&s;tanding that they be regi&s;trate, as &s;aid is: and that nane of the &s;aids euidents be of force, &s;trength, or effect to ony inten|tion, but to be null, and of nane auaill, except the &s;amin be regi&s;trate, as &s;aid is. It is alwayes prouyded by the tenour of this pre&s;ent act for remedy of the negligence of pairties, that if the principall wrytes marked and regi&s;trate as is aboue written, be not lifted by the producers, within the &s;pace of thrie moneths after they be marked and regi&s;trate, as &s;aid is, that the &s;aids Clarks &s;all be na mair countabill for them, nor the wrytes produced repute as regi&s;trat, except it may be &s;ufficiently verefied by authentick in&s;truments, the non-deliuering of them to haue bene in the Clarks default. And that letters of publication be direct heirupon in forme as effeirs.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Extractum de libro actorum Parliamenti, S.D.N. Regis, per me Magi&s;trum Ioannem Skene, Clericum rotulorum Regi&s;tri, ac Con&s;ilij S.D.N. Regis, &s;ub meis &s;igno &amp; &s;ub&s;criptione manualibus. <HI>Sic &s;ub&s;cribitur, Ioannes Skene Cler. Regi&s;t.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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