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yield the same yearly at her option ; because she discharges the said James
of great sums promised by her friends and received by him in name of
" tochir gude," and also because she renounces her right to the lands
granted to her in conjunct fee, and to terce lands that might fall to her
through his decease, notwithstanding any sentence of divorce that might
be given in the contrary : Till the sentence should be given, 80 merks
yearly, and all expenses of the plea are to be paid by Drumlanrig.
Either party discharges other of all other contracts, &c. : All under
the pains of 500 merks to be paid by the party breaking the contract to
the party observing it. The Agreement to be registered in the Official's
Books of Louthian and St. Andrews. At Edinburgh, 6 September 1539.
Subscribed " James Dowglas of Drulanrik w' my hand," " M'garet
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Douglas w* my hand at ye pen."
21. Lettees of Dispensation by Antonius, presbyter cardinal with
the title of the four crowned saints, directed to the Archbishop of Glasgow,
or his vicar or official, narratiDg that a petition had been presented
to him by James Douglas of Drumlanrik, layman, and Christina Montgomery,
woman, of the diocese of Glasgow, stating that they formerly,
knowing that they stood within the simple third and quadruple fourth
degrees of affinity contracted marriage ; but since they could not continue
in such marriage, and grave scandalsjwere likely to arise, the spouses had
supplicated the Apostolic See for the benefit of absolution. Therefore
by authority of the Pope, of whose penitentiary the granter was in charge
and by express command of the Pope given viva voce, he charges the
Archbishop's circumspection, to absolve them from their excesses and
from the sentence of excommunication which they had incurred, and
allow them to marry de novo, &.G. Given at Rome, at St. Peters, under
the seal of the penitentiary, viii Id. [6th] September, sixth year of Pope
Paul the Third [c. 1540].
[Seal remaining, but broken, contained in leaden case—The Virgin and
Child under a canopy.
22. Another avrit the same to the same, and tied to the former by a
cord, explains that the Letters of Dispensation were to be valid notwithstanding
any difference or defect there might be in the statement of the
degrees of affinity. Of the same date. [Seal awanting, only half of
capsule remains.]
23. Gift by Mary, Queen of Scots, with consent of James Earl of
Arran, lord Hammiltoun, her tutor, protector and governor of her
realm, taking into consideration the good true and thankful service done to
her late father by James Douglas of Drumlanrig as well in parts of France
as in the realm, and other reasons, granting to him, his heirs and#
assignees 600 sheep " being vpoune oure landis of Kirkhop," in the
sheriffdom of Lanark which pertained to her late father, and now to her
as his daughter and heir, to be held by him &c. and discharging the lieges
to make any hindrance to him in possessing the same. Given under the
Privy Seal at Edinburgh, 6th January 1542. It is endorsed as a gift
of the goods of Kirkhope and Quhitecamp.
24. Letters of Gift by Mary, Queen of Scots, with consent of James
Earl of Arran, Lord Hamilton, Protector and Governor of her realm, to
James Douglas of Drumlangrig, his heirs and assignees, of '"'
the nonentres,
malis, fermes, projBttis and dewiteis " of the lands and barony of
Drumlangrig, lands and barony of Tibberis, ten merk land of old extent
of Langcroft, and 50 s. land of old extent of Windyhillis, in the sheriff-
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