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Upon the claim of the Duke of Gordon for the heritable bailiary of Kinloss, which had been validly constituted by the abbot, and having fallen into the King's hands by forfeiture after the act of annexation, had been again granted by a charter of novo-damus; the Lords found this grant did not fall under the sanction of the statute 1455, forbidding the grants of heritable offices.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 363. D. Falconer, v. 1. No 232. p. 319.
