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one entire and free lordship and barony which shall be called in all future 

 time by the aforesaid name of New Scotland. 



And we will and grant, and for ourselves and our successors decree and 

 order, that one seisin now made by the said Sir William and his aforesaids, 

 upon any part of the soil of the said lands and upon the province before 

 described, shall in all future time be effective ; and shall be a sufficient 

 seisin for the whole region with all the parts, appendages, privileges, acci- 

 dents, liberties, and immunities, of the same mentioned above, without any 

 other special and definite seisin to 'be taken by himself or his aforesaids on 

 any other part or place of the same. And concerning this seisin and all 

 things which have followed it, or can follow it, with the advice and consent 

 above mentioned, for ourselves and successors have dispensed, and by the 

 tenor of our present charter, in the manner hereafter mentioned, do dispense 

 for ever : To hold and to possess, the whole and undivided, the said region 

 and lordship of New Scotland, with all the bounds of the same within the 

 seas above mentioned, all minerals of gold and silver, copper, steel, tin, lead, 

 brass and iron and any other mines, pearls, precious stones, quarries, woods, 

 thickets, mosses, marshes, lakes, waters, fisheries, as well in fresh water as 

 salt, as well of royal fishes as of others, states, free towns, free ports, towns, 

 baronial villages, seaports, roadsteads, machines, mills, offices and juris- 

 dictions, and all other things generally and specially mentioned above ; with 

 all other privileges, liberties, immunities and accidents, and other things 

 above mentioned, to the aforesaid Sir William Alexander, his heirs and 

 assigns, from us and our successors, in free covenant, inheritance, lordship, 

 barony and royalty, for ever, through all their just bounds and limits, as 

 they lie in length and breadth, in houses, buildings erected and to be 

 erected, bogs, plains and moors, marshes, roads, paths, waters, swamps, 

 rivers, meadows and pastures, mines, malt-houses and their refuse, hawkings, 

 huntings, fisheries, peat-mosses, turf-bogs, coal, coal-pits, coneys, warrens, 

 doves, dove-cotes, workshops, malt-kilns, breweries and broom-woods, 

 groves and thickets ; wood, timber, quarries of stone and lime ; with 

 courts, fines, pleas, heriots, outlaws, rabbles of women, with free entrance 

 and exit, and with fork, foss, fok, fac, theme, infangtheiff, wrak, wair, 

 veth, vert, vennesonn, pit and ç_ allows ; and with all other and singly, the 

 liberties, commodities, profits, easements and their rightful pertinents of 

 all kinds, w-hether mentioned or not, above or below ground, far and near, 

 belonging, or that can belong, to the aforesaid region and lordship, in any 

 manner, for the future, freely, quietly, fully, whtilly, honourably, well and 

 in peace, without any revocation, contradiction, impediment, or obstacle what- 

 ever. Annually, at the festival of Christ's nativity, on the soil of the said 

 lands and of the province of New Scotland, the said Sir William Alexander 

 and his aforesaids shall pay to us and our heirs and successors, under the 

 name of quit-rent, one penny of Scottish money, if so much be demanded. 



And because the tenure of the said lands, and of the province of New 

 Scotland, and the quit-rent above-mentioned, may fail through want of the 

 timely and lawful entry of any heir or heirs of the said Sir William succeed- 

 ing him, a thing which they may not easily accomplish on account of the great 

 distance from our kingdom ; and these same lands anf. province, on 

 account of non-entrance, may come into our hands and those of our suc- 

 cessors until the lawful entrance of the legitimate heir ; and we being 

 unwilling that the said lands and region at any time should fall into non- 

 entry, or that the said Sir William and his aforesaids shouild be thus 

 deprived of the benefits and profits of the same, therefore we, with the 

 advice aforesaid, have dispensed with the said non-entry whenever it shall 

 occur, and, by the tenor of this our charter, we, for ourselves and our 

 successors, do dispense ; and also we have renounced and exonerated, and 

 by the tenor of our present charter, with the consent aforesaid, we do 



