1703, 6 May, Edinburgh, Parliament

Parliamentary Register

[6 May 1703]

Procedure: opening of session

The laws and acts of the parliament of our most high and dread sovereign Anne, by the grace of God, queen of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, holden and begun at Edinburgh, the sixth day of May, one thousand, seven hundreth and three years, by his grace James, duke of Queensberry, marquess of Dumfreis-shire, earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar, viscount of Nith, Torthorwald and Ross, lord Douglass of Kinmount, Midlebie and Dornock etc., principal secretary of state for the kingdom of Scotland, one of the lords of her majesties' most honourable privy council, thesaury and exchequer, an extraordinary lord of session and knight of the most noble order of the garter, her majesties' high commissioner for holding the same by vertue of a commission under the great seal of this kingdom.

With the special advice and consent of the estates of parliament underwritten.

  1. NAS. PA2/38, f.62. Note alternative contemporary folio system starting f.1 at this point. Back