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Prayers said, the rolls called.
The minutes of the last sederunt read.
The act for security proceeded in, and a clause offered ordaining all Protestant heritors and all burghs within the kingdom forthwith to provide themselves with firearms for all the fencible men who are Protestants in their respective bounds, of the bore proportioned to a bullet of 14 drop weight running, and that the said heritors and burghs discipline and exercise their said fencible men once in the month at least. Upon which, after long debate, the vote was stated add the clause to the act or no, and carried in the affirmative.
A clause then offered ordaining all commissions of officers in the standing forces above captains to be null in the time and event mentioned in the clause, and that all captains and lieutenants of companies and troops which belonged to officers above captains continue their several commands without extending the same further than their companies and troops until further orders from the estates or committee in the interval, and requiring all officers and soldiers in daily pay at the said time to continue in or repair to their quarters and garrisons, and not to remove from there but by order aforesaid, under the pain of treason. And there being another draft of the clause offered providing that in the said event all officers having military commissions and their commissions, and all soldiers of whatsoever degree shall be absolutely at the disposal and under the subjection of the said committee in the interval or of the estates when once met, and that no officer or soldier remove from their quarters where they shall be for the time without orders from the said committee or estates, or presume to disobey the commands of the said committee or estates under the pain of treason, the vote was stated, after some debate, add the first or the second draft of the clause, and carried that the first draft of the clause should be added.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament†