One of the vassals of a barony having obtained his lands to be disjoined from the same by a disposition of the superiority in his own favour; the Lords, nevertheless, found, that these his lands, which had been formerly thirled to the mill of the barony, remained still thirled and that the dismembration alone did not import immunity.
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It was a declarator of liberation from thirlage, for finding and declaring, that his lands of Cockburn were no more astricted to the mill of Balerno; because though they were formerly thirled thereto, as a part of the barony, yet he had obtained his lands disjoined from the same, by a disposition of the superiority of his lands, in his own favour, from my Lord Balmerino, superior, by which he came to hold of the King. Answered, By the contract past betwixt Lowis of Merchiston, Mr. Peter Paterson, and Mr. William, it is indeed agreed, that Mr. William have his own superiority, and Mr. Peter is to have the property of the mill, cum multuris earumque sequelis, which is now conveyed to Dalmahoy; yet the resigning and quitting the superiority can never carry a renunciation of the multures of his lands, unless the same had been particularly so expressed, or that his disposition had been cum molendinis et multuris; and their ceasing to be a part of the barony does not liberate him from his astriction, unless it had been so agreed; and though the lands be disponed to him prout optimum maximum, so is also the mill to Mr. Peter ; nor is his thirlage made less than it was before. The Lords remembered what they had done in Greenock and Carseburn’s case; and found Mr. William Chiesley’s lands remained still thirled, and that the dismembration alone did not import impunity; and therefore assoilzied from his declarator.
