Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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nobis ct siiccessonbus iiostris decerninuis ct ordinamus prcscutcs has litcras nostras
esse ct fore turn validas cfticaces ct snfliciontes memorato Jiu'obo domino Johnstoiin
cjusfiue hajredibus masculis antcdictis, ]iro friiitione et.possessione dicti tituli lionoris ct
gradiis dignitatis coinitia ct domiui pavliamenti, eiim omnibns ct .singulis prerogativis,
prccmiucutii.5, privilegiis, libertatibus ct imraimitatibus ad ciindem pcrtincntibus ct
speetautibiis, ac si prcfatus Jacobus doiuinus Jolinstoun eodern invcstitus et inauguratus
fuisset Bolenni ritu cum omnibus cerenioniis antiquitus nsitutis, de qiiibus dispcnsaximus
tcuorcque prcscntium dispcnsamus in hac parte in pcrpctuum. In eujus rei testimonium
jjvcscntibus magnum sigilluni nostrum aj)poui prccipimus, apud aulam nostram
de Oxford, decimo octavo die mcnsis Martij, anno Domini millesimo scxcentcsimo
quadragesimo tcrtio, ct anno rcgni nostri dcoimo octavo.
Per signatnram manu supremi domini nostri regis suprascriptani.
01. Ti:sTAMEXT AST) LATTER WiLI, of Lady Mai.gahet IIajiieton, widow of
David, Lord Carnegie, and tliird wife of Jamc?, finst Eail of llartfell.
4th July 16-lS.
I, Margaket, Couxtes of Haf.tfell, being for tlio present in gu'id lielth and pcifyt
meriiorie and scnces, praised be God, and knowing thair is nothing more certan nor
death, but the tym and mancr thairof vncertane, and now being willing to dispose vpon
ray worldlie effairis, that I may be reddic to abyd the guid will and pleasure of
almichtie God, quhen it sail please him to call me out of this transitoric lyfi" to his
eterr.all glorie, have thairforc maid and be thir presents makis my testament and hitter
will as followis : First, I reconieud my selff to God, bcleiveing assurcdlie to be saved
be his frie mercie throw tlie onlie merits of Jesus Chryst, my Eedeimer ; and ordanes
my bodie to be buried among the faithfull in the most modest way and in tlie neircst
convenient place quhair it sail please God to call vpon me out of this lytt'. And as
concerning my worldlie ellairis, I mak and constitute my weilbeloaet husband, James,
Erie of llartfell, my onlie executour and intromitter with my guidis, geir and dettis,
to be disposet vpon as followis, \\ith power to him to mak and give vp iuventar thairof,
conferni testament thairvpon, and do all vther things concerning the said executrie in
elk dew form as neid bcis. Item, I assigue, kill' and dispone in legacies to the per-
Eouncs vndernamct the particular legacies, guidis, geir and vthers efter specifeit, in
manor following, to wit, to my eldest docliter, Margaret, Countes of Camwathe, a grit
Jewell maid vp in a pair of braicelets, and a littill Jewell, estimat to tua thousand and
fy\c hundreth merlds vsuall money of Scotland. Item, to my said dochter, for the use
of hir eldest sone, and fuilyicing of him be deccis, to that sone of hiris that .sail succeid