Procedure

Prayers said. Rolls called.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
Procedure: minutes read

Minuts of the last sederunt read.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
Addresses: against the union, read

Then the following addresses were given in and read, viz. Address of heretors and others inhabitants of the paroch of St Ninians, subscribers of the same, and address of the magistrats, town council, burgesses and other inhabitants of the burgh of Dunbar, subscribing the same, both against an union with England in the terms of the articles.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
Committee Membership: sixth article of union

Thereafter the parliament (conform to the minuts of the last sederunt) proceeded to elect the additionall members to the comittee to whom the sexth article and clauses and proposalls relative thereto are remitted, and the three estates, having separated to their usuall places, they returned and reported their respective elections of the said additional members as follows, viz. of the nobility, the earles of Haddingtoun and Cromerty; of the commissioners for shyres, Sir Gilbert Eliot of Minto and Sir Thomas Burnet of Leyes, [and] of the commissioners for burghs, Sir John Areskine and Sir Peter Halkett, and the committee was appointed to meet in the inner session house to morrow at nyne of the clock in the forenoon.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
Procedure: seventh article read, debated, amendments suggested and voted on

Then the seventh article of union was again read and, after some reasoning, a proposall was made for an explanation and addition, whereby the nation would be secured against paying more excise for the tuo penny ale than they now doe, in these terms: that the thirty-four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings, sex pence sterline, excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailer's profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not after the union lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty-four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure.

And another clause being likewayes offered in these terms: and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England.

After some debate the vote was stated, approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear, with the explanation as contained in the first or second clauses above insert, and therupon the said clauses being read, it was agreed that the members shall be marked as they vote and that a list of their names as they vote first or second shall be printed. Wherupon, the vote was putt, approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the said first or second clauses, and it carried first.†

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
Voting Record

First

Second

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
Procedure: adjournment

Then the lord chancellor, by ordor of her majesties' high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till to morrow at ten of the clock.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  3. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back
  4. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.177: 'In the parliament the tuenty eight of November 1706 above was stated approve of the seventh article as to the excise of ale and bear with the explanation as contained in the first clause insert in the minuts of this date, viz. that the thirty four gallons English barrell of bear or ale, amounting to tuelve gallons Scots present measure, sold in Scotland by the brewar at nine shillings sex pence sterline excluding all dueties, and retailed including duties and the retailers profite at tuo pence the Scots pynt, or eight part of the Scots gallon, be not, after the union, lyable on account of the present excises upon exciseable liquors in England, to any higher imposition than tuo shillings sterline upon the foresaid thirty four gallons English barrell, being tuelve gallons the present Scots measure; or in terms of the second, viz. and it is hereby specially provided that the tuo penny ale and bear of Scotland shall be only charged with the same excise as the small bear of England. And it caryed first and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as followes'. This passage does not appear in APS. Back
  5. NAS. PA6/36, f.28/176 (note parallel folio system). Back