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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Mershall
v.
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18 March 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
An annualrent [being] claimed by a beneficed person, out of a man's lands, where he has no mortification to instruct his pursuit, [he] must prove, at the least, thirty years' possession of the same paid to him or his predecessors, titulars of the said benefice, conform to a statute made by the Lords, and inserted in the books of sederunt, in December 1612: According whereto it was decided, the 18th of March 1629, betwixt Mershall, chaplain of a chaplainry of Dunkeld, called St Ann, for an annualrent of £12, acclaimed out of the lands of Lochantie, to pertain to the said chaplainry.
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