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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Mr Thomas Hope of Rankeillour, commissioner elected for the shire of Fife in place of Sir Archibald Hope of Rankeillour, deceased, took the oath of allegiance, subscribed the same with the assurance and took the oath of parliament.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
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Moved that the parliament now proceed to the further and more particular consideration of the articles of union in order to approve them or not, and to begin with and read the first article.
Moved also that the further consideration of the articles of union be yet delayed for some considerable time that the sentiments of the parliament of England thereupon be known, and the members of parliament may consult these whom they represent. And, after some debate on these motions, the following petitions and addresses were presented as follows - one by some of the barons, freeholders and others subscribers of the same within the shire of Mid-Lothian; another by some of the barons, freeholders and others subscribers of the same within the shire of Linlithgow; and three by some of the barons and freeholders of Perthshire, subscribing the same, all against allowing of an incorporating union with England, and all read and discoursed on. And thereafter, the debate for delay on account of consulting with those whom the members represent, and of knowing the sentiments of the nation and the procedure of the parliament of England was let fall, and agreed that the first article of union should be read, but that it should be entire to next sederunt of parliament to debate whether or not the first article should be concluded by approving thereof or not, or if the parliament may not, before concluding thereof, begin with and conclude any other of the articles, and accordingly the first article was read.
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Thereafter the act adjourning the session until 1 December next was touched with the sceptre by her majesty's high commissioner in the usual manner, of which act the tenor follows.
Our sovereign lady, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, adjourns the session to the first day of December next and declares all actions depending before the lords of session to be continued to the said day. And her majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, dispenses in the meantime with the sitting of the court of justiciary and all inferior courts as if the parliament were not sitting, and further declares that the time and space between the date hereof and the said 1 December next shall not be reckoned in any annual prescriptions, and ordains these words to be published at the market cross of Edinburgh, and to be forthwith printed that all the lieges may be certified thereof.