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Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, and upon weighty and good considerations tending to the establishing of peace and quietness and universal obedience of his highness's authority within this realm, has given and granted and, by the tenor hereof, gives and grants to Margaret Whitelaw, Isobel Whitelaw and Marion Whitelaw, lawful daughters and apparent heirs to the late Patrick Whitelaw of that Ilk, the like favour, grace and benefit of the pacification made and concluded at the burgh of Perth on 23 February 1572 [1573] and ratified and approved in his highness's parliament held at Edinburgh in the month of April 1573; and wills the same pacification be as largely and favourably extended in the favour of the said Margaret, Isobel and Marion for the surety of them and their lives, lands, honours, possessions and goods pertaining to them or to which they may, and ought, to succeed as heirs to their said late father, as if he and they had been specially nominated and comprehended in the said pacification, or as if the whole articles and conditions thereof were herein expressly mentioned. And for the better security, our said sovereign lord, with advice aforesaid, has ratified and approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies and approves the aforesaid pacification given and granted to the said Margaret, Isobel and Marion in manner above-written in all points, after the form and tenor thereof, and declares the same to have full effect and force in time coming, providing always that the same pacification in no way prejudices our sovereign lord and his highness's donator of the said three daughters' ward and marriage, or of any of them, in the whole profits and commodities or of any part thereof, nor yet that the same extend toward the murders of [Henry Stewart, lord Darnley], our sovereign lord's late dearest father, and [James Stewart, earl of Moray and Matthew Stewart, earl of Lennox], his two regents.