Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 21 June 1687
Douglas, Bishop of Dumblane, v. Moir
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Douglas, Bishop of Dumblane, raised a reduction of a tack of some feuduties and teinds, set by his predecessor, Bishop Ramsay, to one Moir; because, 1mo, The tack wants the consent of the Chapter. 2do, It is to their manifest lesion. Answered,—1mo, This is no part of the patrimony of the bishopric, but of the Abbacy of Dundrennan annexed to the chapel royal; and so needed no consent. 2do, The rental was truly augmented 200 merks more than it paid formerly, being now 1200 merks, and relieving him of sundry burdens.
The Lords, on Redford's report, before answer to the first reason of reduction, ordained the annexation alleged upon to be produced. And, as to the second reason, bearing the tack to be set in diminution of the rental; admitted that part of the duply to the pursuer's probation, that, before the expulsion of bishops, before 1637, the teinds set in tack paid a greater rentalled duty, or a greater tack-duty, than the duty of this tack now craved to be reduced.
