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Thereafter the eighteenth article of union was read and, after reasoning theron, an overture was given in for adding a clause in these terms: that all Scotsmen be exeemed from the English sacramentall test not only in Scotland but in all places of the united kingdome and dominions thereunto belonging, and that they be declared capable of offices throughout the whole, without being obliged to take the said test.
And after debate, it being moved that it was not now intire to add the said clause in relation to the sacramentall test, in respect of the vote of parliament of the 12th of November last against adding the lyke clause, after some further discourse thereon, it was aggreed that the same should be putt to the vote, and that the members' votes be marked and the list of their names as they shall vote be printed and recorded.