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Our sovereign lord, of his special grace, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, for 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 Master John Cramond the like grace and benefit of pacification so that he may possess and enjoy the privileges and conditions specified 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 said pacification to be as largely and favourably extended and interpreted in favour of the said Master John, for the surety of his life and possessing of his living, honours, offices, rooms and possessions, as if he had been specially nominated and comprehended therein, or as if the said articles, clauses and conditions of the same pacification were herein expressly specified and contained. And for his better security, our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent thereof, has ratified and approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies and approves the aforesaid benefit of pacification given and granted to the said Master John Cramond in manner 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, and extends the same pacification to him in all respects as the same is extended to any other person or persons, obtainer of before 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 crimes of witchcraft and incest, but by this act specially and expressly excepts the same, and ordains letters to be directed hereupon by the lords of council, if need be, in the appropriate form.