Procedure: eighteenth article, voting on amendment, vote printed

Then the vote was putt whither it was intire to add the clause or not, and it caryed nott.

[So] in the parliament the 31 December 1706 two states of a vote were offered, the first in these terms, whither it was intire to add a clause declareing Scotsmen capable offices throughout the whole united kingdome and dominions therunto belonging without being obliged to take the sacramentall test of England, and the second in these terms, approve of the eighteenth article of union, yea or not, whereupon the vote was putt whither it was intire or not, and it caryed nott, and the list of the members' names as they voted intire or not (ordored to be printed) is as followes.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.48/209 and PA6/36, f.211 (note parallel folio system). Back