 1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown

The 1669 Act of Annexation was a Parliamentary Act passed during 1669 by the Parliament of Scotland to establish Orkney and Shetland's status as Crown Dependencies following a legal dispute with William, Earl of Morton, who held the estates of Orkney and Shetland.The Act made Orkney and Shetland exempt from any ""dissolution of His Majesty’s lands"".