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A DDITIO NA L Off A RTEES.
[1449-50.
eftir folouaud ; that is to say, that the forsaid Archebald and Jamys ar oblist, and
be thir indenturis oblis thaim, the haly euangellis twiob.it, leleli and treuli, but
fraude or gyle, cavillacioune, excepcioun, contradictioune or dissate, that thai sail
stand and abide at the ordinance, deliuerance, determinacion and decrete of the
said lorde Erie of Douglass, of his moder, and thair consale, quhilk of thaim be the
said lorde and his consale forsaid is declarit first borne, that the tother of thaim
in tyme cuming sal nevermare for him his ayris and his successouris hald ferm
and stabil the said determinacion, deliuerance, ordinance and decrete, and neuer
in na tyme revoke, againsay or withstand the said deliuerance, in priue or in
apert, in the law or by the law, na clame to the heretage nam na part of it, in the
contrare of the said decrete and declaracioun of the said lord Erie of Douglas and
of his consale ; renunciand in this part ather of the said partis al privilegis of
law, lettres, bullis of the pape or cardinalis and statutis of the kynrik, the quhilkis
mycht profit til ony of the said partis, or be scaithful or hindering to the tother of
thaim, or to thare ayris, or engender or prejudice : And atoure it is acordiit that the
said partiis are submittit and submittis to the said lord and his consale in the dis-
tribucioun of ony landis, possessioun or gudis, mouabil or unmouabil, quhatsumever
it be plesand to him for to gif or distribute, gif it sal happyn the said lorde Erie
to decesse wythoutin ayre of his body lachfulli to be gottyn, or ony uthir that
emplese or may emplese to him ; and neuer in tyme to cum be thaim na be tliaire
ayris, na nane uthiris in thare name, in jugement na utouth, priualy or in apert,
for to wythstand or againsay the foresaid ordinance, deliuerance, distribucioun or
gift, bot fermly to bide thareat, but fraude or gyle or any excepcioun : And atoure
ather of the said partyis is oblyst to the said lord, that thai sal mak aud sele al and
sindry euidentis and obligaciounis til utheris that sal be sene spedeful to the said
lorde and his consale and his said derest moder, quhat tyme that be thaim ony of
the said partiis be requirit thareto : The quhilk condiciounis and poyntis al and
sindry before wirtin lelely and treuli to kepe but fraude or gyle, as said is, the
hali euangelis twichit, bath the said partis in the presens of al and sindry the
personez underwritin, has gevyn bodily aith : — In witnessing of the quhilk thing
the selis of the saidis Archebald and James enterchangeabli ar put to thir inden-
turis, togidder wyth the sele of the said he and mychti lady and of the said lord
Erie of Douglas, of Alexander Erie of Crauford, Alexander lord Montegummery,
Lourence, lord Abirnethy in Rothimay, John lord Lyndssay of the Byris, Maister
James Lyndsay, persoun of Douglas, Robert Flemyng, lord of Cummernald,
Thomas of Cranstoun of that ilk, Schyr Johne Walace of Cragy, Schyr James of