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In an action betwixt the Bishop of St Andrews and the parishioners of Kilwinning, the Lords minded to find, that the abbacie of Kilwinning might be dissolved sede vacante by his Majesty without consent of the Parliament, but thereafter it was recalled in an action of reduction pursued by the L. of Drumlanrig contra the Lo. of Conhill and Others, tacksmen of Carlaverock, for reduction of a tack set by the Provost of Lincluden, the Lords found, that a provostrie was not a prelacy, and therefore found the tack null, because it was not set with consent of the patron conform to the act of Parliament made in anno 1594.
