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Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament ratify, approve and, for his majesty and his successors, perpetually confirm all and whatsoever letters and gifts of exemption, liberties, freedoms, privileges and immunities made and granted by his highness's most noble progenitors of worthy memory and his highness's self at any time bygone, to and in favour of his highness's general master coiner, warden, counter warden, sinker, assayer, printers, forgers, smelters and other members of his highness's mint-house of Scotland, and specially a letter of exemption and privilege made and granted by our sovereign lord and lords of his highness's privy council to and in favour of the whole officers and members of his majesty's mint-house foresaid, of the date at Whitehall, 15 November 1604, making mention therein of three several gifts of exemptions, whereof one is made and granted by his highness's late dearest grandfather King James V, king of Scotland of happy memory, dated 23 October [1542], and of his highness's reign the 30th year; and likewise of two other several gifts of exemptions made and granted by his highness's self under the privy seal, the one thereof of the date 25 June 1579, and the other of the date 22 April 1584, in manner at length specified in the said several and last gifts, in all and sundry heads, clauses, articles, points and circumstances whatsoever contained in the said gifts and each one of them, with all that has followed or may follow thereupon forever. Moreover, our said sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, for his majesty and his successors, will and grant and perpetually decree and ordain that this present ratification is and shall be in all time coming as valid, effectual and sufficient to the said whole officers and members of his highness's mint-house foresaid present and to come and their successors for the peaceable possessing and enjoying of the privileges, liberties and immunities mentioned in the said gifts, as if the same gifts and each one of them respectively were herein word by word specially and particularly incorporated and inserted, dispensing therewith for ever.