Procedure: draft proclamation read, approved; vote to be printed

Therafter the draught of the proclamation was again read and, after reasoning therupon and some amendments, a vote was stated approve of the proclamation or not. And before voteing, it was aggreed that the members shall be marked as they vote and that the list of their names as they vote, pro or con, shall be printed and recorded and the lord chancelour allowed to have his name printed and recorded as ane approver. And the proclamation as amended being again read over, the vote was putt approve or not, and it carried approve.†

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.29/178v (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.179: 'In the parliament the twenty ninth day of November jM vijC and sex years a vote was stated in these termes, approve of the proclamation against all tumultuary and irregular meetings and convocation of the leidges, yea or not, and it caryed approve, 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