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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN BAIRD OF NEWBYTH.
Date: John Anderson, Parson of Dysart,
v.
John Watson
17 December 1664 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Mr John Anderson, parson of Dysart, pursues removing from four acres of land designed to him for his glebe, against John Watson, the heritor. The Lords sustained process, and decerned: notwithstanding it was alleged for the defender, That only ministers of landwart kirks, and not ministers of burghsroyal, could have glebes, conform to the Act of Parliament; which the Lords repelled, in respect the Act of Parliament is only meaned of such burghs as had no landwart at all in the parish.
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