I Michael Duncan David
Crichton-Stuart of Falkland, M.C.,
Baron of Myres, Nuthill and Balmblae in the County of Fife, Heritable Constable,
Captain and Keeper of Her Majesty’s
Palace of Falkland, Stewart of Fife, Keeper of the Royal Park of Falkland,
Ranger of the Lomonds and Forester of Falkland
(in so far as the said offices of Constabulary and Stewartry are not now abolished by law),
Heritable Macer and
Serjeant-at-Arms with right and privilege to nominate and present one of the four
ordinary Macers before the Lords of
Council and Session, Knight of the Sovereign and Military order of Malta,
Officer of the Venerable Order of St John
of Jerusalem, Justice of the Peace for the County of Fife,
Member of the Queen’s Body Guard for
Scotland (Royal Company of Archers),
Major late Scots Guards, heritable proprietor of the subjects hereinafter disponed,
Considering that I am desirous
that such part of my duties as relates to the preservation of Her Majesty’s
Palace of Falkland should be performed
in all time coming by a Depute in whom I have sufficient confidence,
and that I am in sympathy with the purposes and aims of
The National Trust for Scotland
for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty,
incorporated by The National Trust for Scotland Order Confirmation Act, 1935,
and am well satisfied of their qualifications for carrying out
the said duties as Deputes under me and my successors,
principal and heritable Keepers of the said Palace, and now seeing that
I have given to the said National Trust for Scotland a sufficient sum of money
for the maintenance of that part of my said office of
Keeper of the Palace of Falkland hereby subinfeudated,
as also for the upholding and executing of the obligations
ad factum præstandum hereby (as hereinafter set forth)
attached to the heritable subjects hereinafter disponed,
Do hereby in feu farm dispone to and in favour of
The National Trust for Scotland
for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
aforesaid inalienably, whom failing to the persons successively thereafter
who shall be in right to the heritable office of
Principal Keeper of the Palace of Falkland (the said disponees
as proprietors of the said subjects being hereinafter referred to
as “the feuars”) heritably and irredeemably, but with and under the
reservations, burdens, conditions and others after specified,
All and Whole those parts and portions
of the policies and gardens
of the Palace of Falkland, including the walls surrounding
the same and the solum thereof, as are delineated and coloured pink
on plan A annexed and subscribed as relative hereto,
being part of the Estate of Falkland in the County of Fife at more length
described in the Disposition by the Trustees of
my grandfather The Most Honourable John Patrick Crichton-Stuart,
Marquess of Bute, in favour of my father The Honourable Ninian
Edward Crichton-Stuart commonly called Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart
of Falkland in liferent and the heirs male of his body
whom failing the other heirs therein mentioned in fee, dated 6th and 7th
both days of March and recorded in inter alia the Division
of the General Register of Sasines applicable to the County of Fife
on the 7th day of December, all in the year 1914,
together
with the heritable sole Deputy Keeping of the Palace of Falkland,
with the whole right and duty of upholding the
Palace free of wind and water
(which obligations are hereby constituted a real burden upon, and affecting the subjects
and others herein disponed) and therefore of appointing
and maintaining a resident guardian there,
and with all rights to regulate entry to the Palace
and policies in so far as I possess them,
But always with and under the burdens, reservations,
conditions, provisions, restrictions and limitations
so far as still subsisting and applicable specified
in the title deeds of the subjects hereby disponed : Reserving always to me
the said Michael Duncan David Crichton-Stuart
of Falkland and my heirs and successors
as superiors of the subjects hereby disponed the
