royal Scottish blazon  
❧ Act of Parliament anent registration of Seasings.  
IN the Parliament haldin at Edinburgh the fifthtene day of November, the year of God, Ane thousand sex hundredth years. OUR SOVERANE LORD and Estatis of Parliament, for eschewing of falsets, and for security of all the Liege's, Statutis and ordains that in all time coming, All instruments of Seizing, Reversions, Regress, Bands or promises for giving of Reversions or regress, Discharges of Reversions, Assignations to Reversions, Intimations of the samen, Renunciations of wodsettis, and grants of Redemption, quhilks shall not be registrate in the buikes of Council and Session, within forty days next after the making and perfiting of the samen, (except and always Seasings of Burrow land, halden in fry burgages, given upon Resignation made in the bailie's hands, conform to the act of Parliament.) Be insert and registrate in the registers presently appointed to that effect, within the foresaid space of forty days after they be perfected, utherwaies to be nul, and to make no faith in judgement, nor out-with. And the said nullity to be received by way of exception. And the said's Registers for the greater ease of the Liege's, to be established in particular places following. That is to say, one in the town of Kirkwall in Orknay, for the hail inhabitants and landly and within the shirefdome of Orknay and Shetland. Ane in the burgh of Innernes, for the shirefdome of Innernes and Cromartie Ane in the burgh of Elgin, for the shirefdome of Elgin, Forres and Narne Ane in the burgh of Aberdein, for the shirefdomes of Aberdein; Baumf, and Kinkardin. Ane in the burgh of Dundie, for the shirefdome of Forfare Ane in the burgh of Perth, for the shirefdome of Perth, and stewartrie of Stratherne (except and the stewartry of Menteith.) Ane in the burgh of Striuiling, for the shirefdome of Striuiling, Clakmannan, and stewartry of Menteith. Ane in the burgh of Cowper in Fyfe, for the shirefdome of Fyfe and Kinrosher. Ane in the burgh of Edinburgh, for the shirefdome of Edinburgh principal, and Constabularie of Hadingtoun. Ane in the burgh of Linlithgow, for the shirefdomes of Linlithgow and Bathcat. Ane in the burgh of Lawder, for the shirefdomes of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peibles, and bailʒerie of Lawderdaill. Ane in the town of Hammiltoun, for the shirefdome of Lanrick, (except and the burgh and barony of Glasgow.) Ane in the city of Glasgow, for the baronies of Glasgow and Renfrew. Ane in the burgh of Dumbertane; for the shirefdomes of Dumbertane, Bute, Argyle, Arrane, and Tarbet. Ane in the burgh of Air, for the shirefdome of Air, and bailʒeries of Kyle, Karrick, and Cuninghame Ane in the burgh of Wigtoun, for the shirefdome of Wigtoun. Ane in the burgh of Dumfreis, for the shirefdome of Dumfreis, and stewartries of Kirkcuthbright, and Annandaill. Or  uther place or places mair convenient, as the keipers of the said's Registers shall think mayst expedient, due intimation being made to the liege's of the samen: and the said's evidents to be registrate in the particular buikes appointed for ilk shirefdome, as said is. And to the effect the said office may presently and in all time coming be the mair faithfully administrate, STATUTES and ordains the samen to be annexed and incorporate with the office of Secretary: and the foresaids registers to be called the registers of the Secretary in all time coming. And that the Secretare present, and to come, have the said office as one proper part and pertinent of the said secretary: make and constitute particular deputies, one, or mae, for all the days of their lifetime, or utherwayes as he shall think expedient, in every one of the places foresaides, of good fame, literature, and conversation, for quhome he shall be answerable, and quha shall be resident within the said's towns and burghes: ready at all times to receive from the pairties their evidents, and to registrate the samen within the space of twenty four hours, next after the receipt thereof. And deliver to the presenter of the samen, their evidents marked by him, with the day, month, and year of the registration, and in what leaf of the book the samen is registrate: and shall take allanerlie for his pains, the sowme of threttein shilliings and four pennies, as for the price of ilk leaf of his register, written on baith the sides. And according thereto, shall take proportionally for registering of every one of the said's evidents. And the said's registers to be filled by the said's deputes, to be marked by the Secretare or his deputes to be appointed by him for that effect, with one note of the particular number of the leaves that the samen shall contain. And the said's registers after the filling of the samen, to be reported to the said Secretare, to remain with him, and to be patent to all our Soverane Lord's liege's that shall have ado with the samen. The extract of the quhilk register shall have as great faith and strength, as give the original were shawin, except the pairties having enters to oppone against the said's wrytis, offer to improve the samen by way of action or exception. In the quhilk case the pairty purchaser of the said's evidents, and others havand enters to defend the samen, shall be holden to produce the principal and original, notwithstanding that they be registrate, as said is: and that nane of the said's evidents be of force, strength, or effect to  intention, but to be null, and of nane avail, except the samen be registrate, as said is. It is always provided by the tenor of this present act for remedy of the negligence of pairties, that if the principal writeth marked and registrate as is above written, be not lifted by the producers, within the space of thrie months after they be marked and registrate, as said is, that the said's Clarks shall be na mair countabill for them, nor the writeth produced repute as registrate, except it may be sufficiently verified by authentic instruments, the non-delivering of them to have been in the Clarks default. And that letters of publication be direct heirupon in form as effeirs.  
Extractum de libro actorum Parliamenti, S.D.N. Regis, per me Magistrum joannem Skene, Clericum rotulorum Registri, ac Consilij S.D.N. Regis, sub meis signo & subscriptione manualibus. Sic subscribitur, joannes Skene Cler. Regist.   

Printed by Robert W 〈…〉 grave, Printer to the King's majesty