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Prayers said, rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Archibald Douglas of Cavers, one of the commissioners for the shire of Roxburgh, being absent the former sederunts of parliament, took the oath of allegiance and signed the same with the assurance and took the oath of parliament.
More lists of commissioners for supply read in parliament and approved.
Ordered that in printing of the act for the supply the quotas of Inverness and Nairn be rectified, according to the tenor of an act of parliament of 1690 now produced, which is the rule of their payment, and whereby it is appointed that £26 Scots be deducted from the quota of cess paid monthly by the shire of Nairn and be added to the quota of cess paid monthly by the shire of Inverness.
Draft of the act concerning the union between the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, as also the draft of a letter from the parliament to her majesty, expressing their confidence that in the treaty of the said union her majesty will have a gracious regard to the maintaining of the presbyterian government in this church, were both read, and the question being put approve the act and letter aforesaid or not, carried in the affirmative.
Before calling of the rolls upon the said vote, Walter Stewart [of Pardovan], commissioner for the burgh of Linlithgow, declared that he did dissent from the said vote, in respect that by no clause in the draft of this act the commissioners to be named were limited or hindered from treating about the reintroduction of prelacy, albeit the same be abolished by the Claim of Right, and craved the same might be recorded, and thereupon took instruments. And George Moncrieff of Reidie, one of the commissioners for the shire of Fife, adhered to the dissent.
The act for the justiciary in the Highlands read a second time and voted and approved.
The act enabling her majesty to appoint commissioners for a union between the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, as also the act for the justiciary in the Highlands, were touched with the sceptre by her majesty's high commissioner in the usual manner.
The further insisting in the charge at her majesty's advocate's instance against the dean of faculty and certain advocates continued until the next sederunt of parliament.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Saturday next at 10 o'clock.
[Patrick Hume, earl of] Marchmont, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament