Ratification by the commissioners of the parliament for surrenders and teinds, of the decree arbitral in a submission between Robert Viscount of Belhaven and the principal and masters of the college, in which the said Viscount is ordained to pay 4 chalders of beer and 8 bolls of meal yearly to the college, as the parsonage teind of his 6 pounds land of Gorbals and Brigend. Ratified by Robert Viscount of Belhaven on the 22th of September 1636.
- Reference:GB 248 GUA BL/430
- Dates of Creation:22 June 1636
- Language of Material:Scots
Scope and Content
The document is on paper written in a secretary hand. The first letter is slightly ornamented. It bears the signature of John Sydserff.
Custodial History
Previously numbered GUA 16624.
Blackhouse charters catalogue description: 'Ratification by the Commissioners of Parliament for surrenders and teynds of a Decreet Arbitrall by which the Constant Stock teynd victuall bolls of the Six pound land of Gorbells and Bridgesend pertaining to the Viscount of Belhaven is Decerned to have been and to be in tyme comeing 4 Chalder bear and 8 bolls meall Lithgow measure Butt Deduction of a fifth part for the kings case Decerning the said Viscount and his successors to pay to the saids Masters and their successors in office the foresaids 4 Chalders and 8 bolls But deduction yearly betwixt Zuill and Candlemes 1st years payment beginning at Candlemas Last bypast for the cropt 1635 and laso Decerning the said Viscount to infeft the Masters of the said Colledge in ane annual rent of four Chalders of bear and 8 bolls meall out of the Lands and teynds of Gorbells and Bridgend to be uplifted betwixt the said feasts yearly And that by Charter and Seasine containing absolute warrandice And Decerning the saids Masters to free and warrand the said Viscount and his successors of all annuities Taxations or oyr impositions whatsomever Imposed or to be imposed upon the saids teynds the Submission is dated 22 June 1636 Ratefied with the Decreet Arbitrall following upon it 5 July 1636'.
Bibliography
Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis, Records of the University of Glasgow from its Foundation till 1727, ed. by Cosmo Innes (Glasgow : the Maitland Club, 1856), I, p. 256-258 (entry no 162).
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