ITEM Forsomuch as there has been of before divers, large, and sumptuous expenses, made by our Sovereign Lord’s predecessours, & himself, in keeping, fortifying, & reparation of the Castle of Dunbar, and Fort of Inchkeith, which are both unprofitable to the Realm, and not able to defend [from] the enemies thereof, in case the same were assaulted; And now seeing that the said Castle, and Fort, are both becoming so ruinous, that the same shall allutterly [entirely] decay, except there be such expenses made thereupon, as is unable to be performed without great inconveniences; And also having consideration of an act of Parliament made in umwhile [sometime, late] our Sovereign Lord’s grandschir’s [great-grandfather’s] tyme, King James the fourth, of most worthy memory, ordaining the said Castle of Dunbar to be demolished and cast down, as in the act made thereupon at more length is contained, which act as yet is not abrogated; ¶ Therefore our Sovereign Lord, with advice and consent of my Lord Regent, and three Estates of this present Parliament, has ordained, and ordains that the Castle of Dunbar, and Fort of Inchkeith be demolished, and cast down utterly to the ground, and destroyed in such wise, that no foundation thereof be occasion to big [build] thereupon in time coming.