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Then the first overture for the clause in relation to personall protection was again read and, after debate, it was putt to the vote, add the clause or not, and it caryed not.
Thereafter the second overture, for a clause in relation to all the peers of Scotland their sitting covered in the house of peers of Great Brittain, was again read and, after reasoning, the vote was putt add the clause or not. But, before voteing, it was aggreed that the members' votes shall be marked and that the list of their names as they vote be printed and recorded.
Then it was putt to the vote, add the clause or not, and it caryed nott.
[So] in the parliament the thirteenth day of January 1707 years a vote was stated in these terms, add the following clause to the twenty-third article of union, viz. that all the peers of that part of Great Brittain now called Scotland, qualified according to law, shall, after the union, have right to sitt covered in the house of peers of Great Brittain, notwithstanding that the right to give vote therin belongs only to the said sexteen peers who are to be summoned in the manner appointed by the preceeding article, yea or not, and it caryed not, and the list of members as they voted add or not (ordored to be printed) is as followes.