Minuts of the last sederunt read.
Then the following addresses were given in and read viz. Address of the magistrats, toun council, merchants, deacons of crafts and other inhabitants within the burgh of Craill, subscribing the same; address of heretors and commoners in the paroch of East Monkland, subscribing the same; address of heretors and commoners in the paroch of Shots, subscribing the same; address of heretors and commoners in the paroch of Dalserf, subscribing the same; address of heretors and commoners in the paroch of Stenhouse, subscribers of the same; address of a body of people in the south and western shires, subscribed by Mr John Hepburn and other seven persons; and an address of the magistrats, toun council and others inhabitants of the burgh of Kirkcudbright, subscribers of the same, all against allowing an union with England in the terms of the articles.
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Thereafter the parliament proceeded to the further consideration of the act for security of the true Protestant religion and government of the church of Scotland, as by law established, and the fourth clause thereof again read. Whereupon, it was moved that a clause should be added in thir terms: and that they shall be capable of any office, civil or military, and to receive any grant, gift or right and to have command or place of trust from and under the sovereign within any part of Great Britain. And after debate thereupon, it was put to the vote, add the above clause or not, and it carried not, and the clause as it stood in the draught of the act agreed to.
Then the fifth clause of the act was also read and agreed to with some amendments.
And the next clause, being again read and amended, was likeways agreed to.
Whereupon the whole act was again read, as also the last representation and petition of the commission of the general assembly of this church, and a vote was thereupon stated, approve the act or not.
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But before voting the Lord Belhaven gave in a protestation in thir terms: That he did protest, in his own name and in name of all these who shall adhere to him, that this act is no valid security to the church of Scotland as it is now established by law in case of an incorporating union, and that the church of Scotland can have no real and solid security by any manner of union by which the Claim of Right is unhinged, our parliament incorporated and our distinct sovereignty and independency intirely abolished. Which, being read, he took instruments thereupon, and the duke of Hamilton, the duke of Atholl, the marquess of Annandale, the earl of Erroll, the Earl Marischall, the earl of Wigtoun, the earl of Selkirk, the earl of Kincardin, the viscounts of Stormont and Kilsyth, the lords Oliphant, Blantyre, Colvil and Kinnaird, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, John Birsbane, younger of Bishoptoun, Mr William Cochran of Kilmaronock, Sir Humphray Colquhoun of Luss, Robert Rollo of Powhouse, John Murray of Strowan, Francis Molison, Mr John Carruthers and George Home, adhered thereto.
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Moved that all the members should be marked as they shall approve the act or not, and also as they shall adhere to the protestation, and that the list of the members as they shall vote, pro or con, shall be printed, and agreed to.
Then the vote was put, approve the act or not, and it carried approve, and the list of the members as they voted, pro and con, is as follows.
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Approvers
These who in the foregoing vote, voted no, are as follows.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesties' high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till Thursday next at ten of the clock.