Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time, and statements in a recent work "The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers"

62 COMMENTS ON KEIE PERFORMANCE,
James, his airis, and assignais quliatsumeuer : Quhilkis letres of procuratorie, I be
the tennour of thir presentis, ratifeis, apprevis, and for me, and my airis, perpetu-
alie, confermes, and sueris and declaris to zour Lordscliipis, be my grite aith, that I
am nocht coactit, compellit, defraudit, circumvenit, or disavit, in making of the
samin, bot maid the saidis letres of procuratorie, and now ratifeis and apprevis the
samin of my awin fre wall, and ardent desire for the causes abone writtin, and sail
neuir revoik, nor cum in the contrar thairof in jugement nor outwith, be ony maner
of way in tyme cuming, and that the saidis landis may be maid sicker to the said
James and his airis, I desire the saidis letres of procuratorie, with this my writting
and declaratioun, to be actit and registrat in the buckis of Counsale, and that zour
Lordscliipis wald geve actis, decretis, and interpone zour auctorite thairto, confonn
to zour practic obseruit in sic caisis ; and mair attour, becaus thii- was ane resigna-
tioun maid of the saidis landis of Vchiltreis be vertu of the saidis first letres of
procuratorie, in the handis of William Menteith of West-cars, superiour thairof, and
infeftment gevin tliirthrow to the said James of the samin, quha, thairefter, at my
command, and desire, disponit the saidis landis of Vchiltreis be charter of aliena-
tioun to the said Thomas Bischope to my behuif, and the said Thomas obligatioun
gevin to me that he saU resigne the samin in fauoris of me and my airis, howsone
sentence of cUuorse beis lede, and gevin simpliciter betuix me and the said James.
Therefor, for my singuler wele and vtilite, I revoik, renunce, and dischargis the
pretendit reuocatioun maid be me of the said first procuratorie in presens of zour
Lordschipis, and wiU, consentis, and ordanis, that the said reuocatioxm, actis and
instrumentis, geve ony was maid thairupoune, sail be deleit and put furtli of the
bukis of Coimsale, and to haif na strenth nor memorie in time cuming, and be thir
presentis, ratifeis and apprevis the said first procuratorie togidder with the said
resignatioun, charteris, evidentis, and all that foUow it thaiinipon, in maner forsaid.
In witness of the quloilk thing, I haif subscriuit tliir presentis with my hand, the
xi day of December, the zeir of God Ane thousand fyve hundi-eth and fourty-ane
zeris ; Off the quhilk procuratorie the tenour foUowis : — " UuiVEESis ET Singulis
ad quorum notitias presentes Utere peruenerint Joneta StriueUng Domina de Gadder,
salutem, quia, duni nuper recordarem quod quondam Johannes Striueling de Keir
miles, pater Jacobi Striueling nunc de Keir mei sponsi pro recuperatione warde,
releuii, et nonentroitus, mearum terrarum, et hereditatis, ac in protection e et defen-
sione earundem non minimam sue hereditatis et prediorum partem vltra redem-
tioneni alienauit in dicti mei sponsi grave damnimi qui ad huiusmodi suas terras
succedere debuerant, et quia idem meus sponsus et eius domus ceteris cognominis
de Striueling ab antiquo perfuerant et principalis habebatur. Ne minonis gi'adus
preeminentie fiat ob sue hereditatis diminutionem quam predecessores sue extiter-
unt sibi et sue domiii auxiliari, suamque hereditatem augere animo deUberato
mecum decreui, noueritis igitur me non vi aut metu ductam, nee en'ore lapsam,