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Pacification granted to Robert [Crichton], bishop of Dunkeld

The king's majesty, with advice of the three estates of this present parliament, for certain respects and considerations moving them, has given and granted and, by the tenor hereof, give and grant to Robert, sometime bishop of Dunkeld, the like favour, privilege and benefit of pacification as is contained in the pacification made and accorded upon at Perth on 23 February 1572 [1573], ratified, approved and confirmed in the parliament held at Edinburgh in April 1573, and that the same pacification and whole clauses thereof to be as largely and favourably extended to the said Robert, bishop of Dunkeld and his heirs as if he were specially nominated and comprehended therein; therefore our said sovereign lord, with advice of the said three estates, has ratified and approved and, by the tenor hereof, ratifies and approves the benefit of pacification given and granted to the said bishop in manner aforesaid, and wills and grants the same to be as sufficient and have the like strength, force and effect in all things and to be as largely and favourably extended to him for using and possessing of the bishopric of Dunkeld and others whatsoever, his lands, rents, possessions, rooms, houses, benefices, offices, liferents, honours, privileges and dignities which he used before whatsoever process of forfeiture led against him, for any cause or occasion bygone preceding the date hereof, as if he were specially nominated in the said pacification and the whole clauses and articles thereof herein expressed, and ordains the lords of council and session to direct letters at the said Robert's instance for repossessing him to the said bishopric and others above-written likewise and in the same manner as other obtainers of the like benefit have received before, and letters of publication to be directed hereupon as is appropriate, providing always that the granting of the said pacification in no way extend to the odious murders of [Henry Stewart, lord Darnley], our sovereign lord's dearest father, and [James Stewart, earl of Moray and Matthew Stewart, earl of Lennox], his two regents; and likewise wills and grants that the same extend not in hurt and prejudice of any feu or tack which Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie has of the lands of Aberlady, with their pertinents, or of the lands of Cramond and of the teind sheaves of the manse of Cramond and town and lands of Aberlady, with their pertinents, or any other rooms or possessions which the said Patrick has of the bishopric of Dunkeld; and likewise that the said pacification in no way hurt nor prejudice Ludovic [Stewart], duke of Lennox, his right, title and tacks whatsoever which he has to the teind sheaves of the parish of Cramond, they always paying to the said bishop the duties and mails thereof used and wont.