[Article of union and report of the committee to calculate the equivalent read and debated]

Prayers said.

Rolls called.

Minuts of the last sederunt read.

The fifteenth article of union read and therafter the first clause or paragraph therof again read. As also the report brought in from the committie for examining the calculation of the equivalent being as follows: the committie of parliament to whom the considering of the calculation of the equivalent was remitted, having considered the report made to them by Doctor James Gregory, professor of mathematicks in the colledge of Edinburgh, and the report made by Doctor Thomas Bowar, professor of the mathematicks in the colledge of Aberdeen, of their severall and respective examinations of the calcul and grounds therof, wherupon the commissioners in treating the article for establishing the equivalent did proceed, and also having considered the report of the sub committie theranent, they find that the computation of the equivalent mentioned in the article is just and that the calcul is exact and well founded in the terms and in manner exprest in the said article.

Wherupon it was proposed to delay the consideration of the said fifteenth article untill reports be brought in in relation to the sixth and eight articles from the committee to whom the said articles are remitted.

And, after debate theron, it was aggried that the proceeding on the fifteenth article shall not be understood to be any determination of the sixth or eight articles that stand committed, but that the reasoning and voteing on the sixth and eight articles shall be intire.

Then a state of a vote was offered in these terms: approve of the first paragraph of the fifteenth article or not.

But it being moved that the parliament first consider whether we shall be concerned in the payment of the English debts, a second state was therupon offered: whether we shall engadge in the payment of the debts of England, yea or not.

And, after some reasoning theron, it was putt to the vote which of the two should be the state of the vote, first or second.

  1. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 186, f.34-34v. Back
  2. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 189. Back
  3. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 188. Back
  4. Sic. Should be David. Back
[Voting list ordered to be printed; protestation against liability to English debts]

But before voteing it was aggreed that the members votes shall be marked, and that a list of their names as they shall vote shall be printed and recorded.

And the Lord Beilhaven gave in a protest as follows: I do protest, in my own name and in the name of all those who do adhere to this my protest, that the voteing and agreeing to the first clause of the fifteenth article of the treaty of union doeth no ways inferr any manner of consent or agreement that Scotland should be lyable to the English debt in generall, but that it may be lawfull to object against any branch of the said debt not already determined; and he took instruments theron, and his grace the duke of Hamiltoun, the earle of Selkirk, the Lord Saltoun, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, David Bethon of Balfour, Major Henry Balfour of Dunboig, Mr Thomas Hope of Rankeilor, Alexander Watson and Mr Robert Fraser adhered thereto.

Then the vote was put first or second, and it caryed first.

  1. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 186, f.34-34v. Back
  2. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 189. Back
  3. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 188. Back
  4. Sic. Should be David. Back
[Clause of article approved; gratuity recommended for those involved in calculating the equivalent; continuation]

Therafter it was putt to the vote approve the first clause or paragraph of the fifteenth article or not, and it carried approve.

Her majesties high commissioner and the estates of parliament did recommend the persons imployed in the calculation of the equivalent by the comittee to whom the examining therof was remitted to the lords of her majesties thesaury for a gratification for their pains.

Then the lord chancelour, by order of her majesties high commissioner, adjourned the parliament till Tuesday next at ten of the clock.

Seafield, cancellar[ius], I.P.D. p[arliamenti]

  1. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 186, f.34-34v. Back
  2. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 189. Back
  3. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 188. Back
  4. Sic. Should be David. Back
[Voting list]

In the parliament the seventh of December 1706, two states of a vote being proposed, the first in these terms: approve of the first paragraph of the fifteenth article of union or not, and the second in these terms: whither we shall engadge in the payment of the debts of England, yea or not. And the vote was therupon put whither the first or second should be the state of the vote, and it carried first, and the list of the members as they voted first or second (ordered to be printed) is as follows:

First:

Second:

  1. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 186, f.34-34v. Back
  2. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 189. Back
  3. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 188. Back
  4. Sic. Should be David. Back
[Voting list]

In the parliament the seventh day of December jM vijC and sex years, a vote was stated approve of the first clause or paragraph of the fifteenth article of union, yea or not. And it caryed approve, and the list of the members as they voted approve or not (ordored to be printed) is as followes:

Approvers:

Noes:

  1. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 186, f.34-34v. Back
  2. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 189. Back
  3. NAS. PA3/7, Printed Minutes No.34, supplement or NAS. PA6/36, 188. Back
  4. Sic. Should be David. Back