Minutes of the last sederunt read.
The report of the committee for security of the kingdom read, namely, it is the opinion of the committee for security of the kingdom that a resolve should be made in parliament to grant sufficient supplies to her majesty for maintaining forces, repairing forts and garrisons and providing arms and ammunition and guarding the coasts and trade, for securing the peace and quiet of the Highlands, and generally for defence and security of the kingdom.
It was moved that a committee be appointed for revising the accounts of the money given and laid on by the former sessions of this parliament.
Agreed that a committee be appointed for that end and that there be three of each estate and that the members bring in their lists at the next sederunt.
The said report, being again read, was voted and approved.
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Report from the committee of security anent the affair of the advocates remitted to them, that they had called the dean of faculty and whole advocates, whereof about seventy had declared they gave no warrant to the dean of faculty to subscribe the paper called the Address, and twenty of them refused to answer the question; and that the committee had caused the said refusers enact themselves to appear before the parliament this day and ordered her majesty's advocate to prepare and exhibit a charge against them.
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Her majesty's advocate exhibited the said charge, which, being read, the said advocates that had enacted themselves were called and the charge read to them.
The dean of faculty, for himself and in name of the others called, craved a competent time to answer the libel, it being complex.
Her majesty's advocate declared that the defenders should have a copy of the libel and instructions thereof, with a list of the witnesses, and craved that a copy given to the dean of faculty should be sufficient for him and the rest, to which the defenders agreed.
But thereafter, her majesty's advocate declared he would give a copy to each of them, but that the documents should be put in the dean of faculty's hands to serve for him and the rest, which was agreed to and ordered to be marked.
Ordered that the defenders give in their answers to the charge on Tuesday next, with continuation.
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Ordered that the committee for drawing the answers to her majesty's letters should meet tomorrow morning and prepare drafts for the parliament.
The other committees appointed to meet tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until next Thursday at 10'clock.