Minuts of the last sederunt read.
Representation and petition of the commission of the general assembly of this church, representing the increase of popery, profanity and other irregularities, and craving the same may be restrained and that the succession to the crown may be established in the Protestant line, read, and remitted to the committee for examining the calculation of the equivalent to consider of proper methods for suppressing popery, profanity and other irregularities, and for execution of the laws already made, and to consider what laws may be further necessary for the effectual suppressing thereof and suppressing† the same.
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Then the following addresses were given in and read viz. Address of merchants and trades of the city of Glasgow, subscribers of the same; address of fewars, masters of families and other inhabitants of Gorballs and muir thereof, sub-scribing the same; address of the parochiners of Biggar, subscribers of the same; and two severall addresses of barons, heretors and freeholders of the shire of Lanerk, subscribing the same, all against allowing an incorporating union with England in the terms of the articles.
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Thereafter the second article of union was again read, with the preliminary motion mentioned in the former day's minuts.
Whereupon it was moved that the parliament do proceed to settle the succession upon limitations and regulations in the terms of the resolve given in and narrated in the minuts of the fourth of November instant, and not in the terms of the second article of union.
Moved also to address her majesty and to lay before her the condition of the nation, and the great aversion in many persons to an incorporating union with England, and to acquaint her majesty of the inclinations and willingness to settle the succession in the Protestant line upon limitations, and in order thereto that some recess be granted.
And after debate upon these several motions, a vote was proposed, approve of the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion inserted in the former day's minuts or not. And, after some further debate, there was a second state of a vote offered in thir terms, address or not.
And after some reasoning which of the two should be the state of the vote, it was put to the vote, whither first or second, and it carried first. But it being moved that some further reasoning should be allowed before the vote were stated for approving the second article of union, after some debate thereupon, it was agreed that the English acts of parliament mentioned in the second article of union be read and that immediatly thereafter, without further debate, a vote should be stated, proceed to call the vote for approving the second article of union or delay, and if it carried proceed, that the vote immediatly thereafter without any interveening debate be put, approve of the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion mentioned in the last day's minuts or not. And accordingly the acts of the English parliament mentioned in the second article of union were read.
Thereafter the vote was put, proceed to call the vote for approving the said second article of union or delay, and it carried proceed. Then the vote was put approve the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion inserted in the last day's minuts, yea or not.
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But before voting, the Earl Marischal gave in the following protest, whereby he did protest for himself and all these who shall adhere to this protestation, that no person can be designed a successor to the crown of this realm after the decease of her majesty, whom God long preserve, and failyieing heirs of her body, who is successor to the crown of England, unless that in this present session of parliament, or any other session of this or any ensueing parliament during her majesties' reign, there are such conditions of government, settled and enacted, as may secure the honour and sovereignty of this crown and kingdom, the freedom, frequency and power of parliaments, the religion, liberty and trade of the nation from English or any forreign influence. Which, being read, he took instruments thereupon, and the dukes of Hamilton and Atholl, the earls of Erroll, Wigtoun and Strathmore, the viscounts of Stormont and Kilsyth, the lords Saltoun, Sempill, Oliphant, Balmerinoch, Blantyre, Bargany, Colvill and Kinnaird, George Lockhart of Carnwath, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Mr Alexander Ferguson of Isle, John Birsbane, younger of Bishoptoun, Mr William Cochran of Kilmaronock, John Grahame of Killearn, James Graham of Buchlivie, Robert Rollo of Powhouse, John Murray of Strowan, James Moir of Stonywood, Mr Thomas Hope of Rankeillor, Mr Patrick Lyon of Auchterhouse, Mr James Carnegie of Phinhaven, David Graham, younger of Fintrie, James Ogilvie, younger of Boynd, James Sinclair of Stempster, Mr George Mackenzie of Inchculter, Alexander Edgar, James Oswald, Alexander Duff, Francis Molison, George Smyth, Robert Scot, Robert Kellie, John Hutchison, Archbald Sheells, Mr John Lyon, Mr John Carruthers, George Home, John Bayne and Mr Robert Fraser, adhered thereto.
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And it was agreed that the members be marked as they shall adhere to the protest, and also as they shall vote approve, or not, and that the list of the members' names as they shall vote, pro or con, be printed.
Then the vote was put approve or not, and it carried approve.
And the lord chancellor was allowed to have his name printed and recorded as an approver, as also to be recorded and printed amongst those who voted proceed to the second article the last sederunt, and so the list of the members as they voted approve of the second article in the terms of the preliminary motion, is as follows.
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Approvers of the second article in the terms of the preliminary motion
The voters against approving the second article in the terms of the said motion
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesties' high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till Munday next at ten a clock.