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The new augmentation of ministers stipends (qlk [quhilk] is so much vrged & will also be obtained) this will exhaust all the superplus valuation & much mor
Qvheras we in obediens to the act of parliament and for echeiving the certifications therein conteint Have returned the report of thr [ther] valuatiounes at ane hicher rate then anie former valuaunes [valuatiounes] of this schyre and also Exceiding the probatioun of severale rentalls given in and probaun [probatioun] of Witnesses deduced befoir us and the totall sett down be the parliament. Thairfore we doe protest That if anie schyre at anie tyme heirefter obteine deductioun of the totale prescrybed be the parliament That the said schyre of Kincard [Kincardine] in regard of the premisss [premisses] may have also a proportionale eass and deduction from the totall

[Signed by the following]
John barclay
James Low balbegnoe
W Rait of [halgrein]
[G] Raitt
William Naper
Patirk Falconer
J Burnett

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The premisses - 'the foregoing, the aforesaid, the above' (see *A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue* s.v. premisis 2).