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The address to be sent to her majesty, read and, after several amendments made thereon, it was put to the vote, approve or not, and carried approve, of which address the tenor follows.
May it please your majesty,
We your majesty's most loyal and faithful subjects, the noblemen, barons and burgesses convened in parliament, humbly represent to your majesty our great disappointment in not having the original papers concerning what was called in England, by the house of peers, the Scottish conspiracy, laid before us and the persons who were examined in that matter sent hither, for which there was application made in the beginning of this session. We, therefore, in all humble duty lay before your majesty the concern of the whole nation in this affair, in which the intermeddling of the house of lords, having been declared by a resolve in this session to be an encroachment upon the independence of this nation and your majesty's prerogative as queen of Scotland, we make it our most humble request to your majesty that you will, in your great wisdom, take such measures as may effectually prevent all such like meddlings for the future.
We also take leave to offer to your majesty as our opinion that nothing can obstruct more our coming into the measures that have been recommended by your majesty in relation to the succession than the house of lords their proceeding to make any more encroachments of that nature.
Therefore, we do humbly entreat your majesty that all the persons and papers relating to that affair that have been examined in England concerning this plot may be sent hither at the meeting of the next session of parliament that this matter may be examined to the bottom, and those who are unjustly accused may have right done them and those who are guilty punished according to their demerits.
Subscribed in presence by warrant and in name of the estates of parliament by, may it please your majesty, your majesty's most humble most obedient and most faithful subject and servant, signed thus: [James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament, Edinburgh, 28 August 1704.