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Pacification to Marie Fleming and her bairns

Our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the three estates of this present parliament, upon good and weighty considerations tending to the establishing of peace and quietness and universal obedience of his highness's authority within this realm, has given and granted to Marie Fleming, widow of the late William Maitland, younger, of Lethington, secretary to our sovereign lord, James Maitland, their son, and the remainder of the said late William's bairns, and each one of them, to have, possess and enjoy the same and like favour, grace and privilege and condition as is contained in the pacification made and accorded upon at Perth on 23 February 1572 [1573], and ratified and approved since in parliament, as at more length is contained in the said pacification; therefore, our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent of his said three estates, has ratified and approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies and approves the said pacification made and granted to the said Marie, her said son and remaining persons in all points, after the form and tenor thereof, and declares the same pacification and ratification thereof aforesaid to be as largely and favourably extended and observed to them and each one of them in all respects as if the said late William or they had been specially comprehended and named therein, and as if the whole clauses, conditions and articles thereof were expressly expressed and mentioned in this act; and decrees and declares the same to have full effect for safety of them and each one of them in body, lands and goods; and ordains the lords of council to direct letters for repossessing of them, according to the accustomed use, in the appropriate form.