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Our sovereign lord, with advice of his three estates convened in this present parliament, ratifies, approves and, for his highness and his successors, perpetually confirms the liberties and privileges granted by his highness and his most noble progenitors to the estate of burghs, and ordains them to have full force and effect in all behalf after the form and tenor thereof.