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Our sovereign lord, of his special grace, 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 John Forman, Rothesay herald, the like favour, grace and benefit of pacification, so that he may possess and enjoy the privilege and conditions as are contained in the pacification made and accorded upon at the burgh of Perth on 23 February 1572 [1573], and since ratified and approved 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 favour of the said John Forman, for the surety of his life and possessing of his living, honours, offices, specially his said office of Rothesay herald, and others his goods and possessions, as if he had been specially nominated and comprehended therein, or as if the whole articles, clauses and conditions of the said pacification were herein expressly specified. And for his better security, our said sovereign lord, with advice aforesaid, ratified, approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies and approves the aforesaid benefit of pacification given and granted to the said John as is above-written, in all points, after the form and tenor thereof; and declares the same to have full effect, strength and force in time coming, and extends the same pacification to him as the same is extended to any other of before, obtainer of the like benefit, 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, nor to the crime of witchcraft and incest, but that the same shall be specially and expressly excepted, and ordains letters to be directed hereupon by the lords of council, if need be, in the appropriate form.