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Prayers said. The rolls called.
Robert Douglas of Strathenry, being duly elected commissioner for the shire of Fife, took the oath of allegiance and oath of parliament and subscribed the allegiance and assurance.
The minutes of the last sederunt read.
Ordered that when the rolls are called for a vote of parliament all the members stand upright in their places and give their votes audibly and that none presume to answer for another.
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Moved that the act for the supply be considered in order to a first reading.
Moved that the remaining controverted elections might be determined for the more full representation of the estates before any further procedure in the supply.
Moved that the overture given in by [John Hay], marquis of Tweeddale for a resolve to make these conditions of government and regulations in the constitution of the kingdom to take effect after the decease of her majesty and the heirs of her body, which might be necessary for securing religion and liberty, be taken to consideration as being necessary and of greater import to the nation than any other matter now lying before the parliament; and the state of a vote thereafter offered in these terms namely, proceed to the reading an act for a supply or to the making an act or acts for securing our religion, liberty and trade before all other business. And, after long debate on these several motions and state of the vote successively, the debate was delayed with consent to the next sitting of parliament.