[1584/5/38]¹

Pacification to John [Fleming], lord Fleming

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, 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 his well beloved cousin John, lord Fleming, the like favour, grace and benefit of pacification so that he may possess and enjoy the like privilege and conditions as are contained in the pacification made and accorded upon at the burgh of Perth on 23 February 1572 [1573]; and has declared the same pacification to be as largely and favourably extended and interpreted in favour of the said lord, for surety of himself, his life, lands, heritage and possessions, or as if he had been specially nominated or comprehended therein, or as if the whole articles, clauses, and conditions of the same pacification were expressly specified therein; therefore, our said sovereign lord, with advice of his said three estates, has ratified, confirmed and approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies, approves and confirms the aforesaid pacification given and granted to the said John, lord Fleming, in manner above-written, after the form and tenor thereof, and decrees the same to have full strength, force and effect in all time coming; and further declares the same pacification to be extended as largely and favourably to the said lord as to any other persons, obtainers of the like benefit, of before, in any of our sovereign lord's parliaments preceding, to the effect the said lord may obtain and get likewise possession, right and title to all lands, heritage, tacks, steadings, rooms, possessions, teinds, and other whatsoever tacks which pertained to the late John [Fleming], sometime lord Fleming, his father, at the field of Carberry Hill, as if he had never been forfeited of before; and ordains the lords of council to direct letters to that effect in the appropriate form.