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Our sovereign lord, with advice of the three estates of this present parliament, of his special grace, 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, by the tenor hereof, gives and grants to Isobel and Alison Dalziel, lawful daughters of James Dalziel, burgess of Edinburgh, the like favour, grace and benefit of pacification, so that they may possess the privilege and conditions as are at length contained in the pacification made and accorded upon at the burgh of Perth on 23 February 1572 [1573], and ratified and approved since in his highness's parliament held at Edinburgh in April 1573, and declares the same pacification to be as largely and favourably extended and interpreted in the favour of the said Isobel and Alison Dalziel, for the surety of them, their lives, lands, heritages, rooms and possessions, honours, livings and others of their goods as if they had been specially nominated and comprehended therein, or as if the whole articles, clauses and conditions thereof were herein expressly specified. And for their better security, our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent aforesaid, ratified and approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies and approves the aforesaid benefit of pacification given and granted to the said Isobel and Alison Dalziel as is above-written, in all points, after the form and tenor thereof, and declares the same to have full strength, force and effect in time coming, notwithstanding the forfeiture led against the said late James, their father, likewise and as freely in all respects as if their said late father had not been forfeited, and extends the same pacification to the said Isobel and Alison, daughters aforesaid, as the same is extended to any other person or persons, obtainers of the like benefits, providing always that the same extend not to the murders of [Henry Stewart, lord Darnley], our sovereign lord's father, and [James Stewart, earl of Moray and Matthew Stewart, earl of Lennox], his two regents, with the crimes of witchcraft and incest, and also without prejudice of the ministers' rights which they have to the glebe and manse of St Cuthbert's kirk beside the castle of Edinburgh, but by this act specially and expressly excepts the same, and ordains the lords of council to direct letters hereupon, if need be, in the appropriate form.