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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Address of the magistrates and town council of the burgh of Ayr, for such rectifications of the articles of union and such eases of duties and public taxes as are most agreeable to the circumstances of this nation, given in and read.
Address of heritors and other inhabitants of the town and parish of Burntisland, subscribers of the same, against a union with England in the terms of the articles, given in and read.
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Thereafter the act suspending the effect of a clause as to arming and exercising the country in the act of security passed in the second session of this current parliament, again read and, after some reasoning thereupon and some amendments, the act as amended was again read. Then the vote was put, approve of the act or not, and it carried approve, and was touched with the sceptre by her majesty's high commissioner in the usual manner, under the title of, act against all musters and rendezvouses during the present session of parliament.
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Our sovereign lady, considering that by the 3rd act of the 2nd session of this parliament entitled, act for security of the kingdom, it is statute and enacted that the whole Protestant heritors and all the burghs within the same shall forthwith provide themselves with firearms for all the fencible men who are Protestants within their respective bounds, and the said heritors and burghs are thereby empowered and ordained to discipline and exercise their fencible men once in the month at least; and also, considering that the disorderly and seditious meetings and tumults in some places in the country does make it necessary at this occasion to suspend the effect of the foresaid clause during this session of parliament only, therefore, her majesty, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, does hereby suspend the effect of the foresaid clause and that during this session of parliament only, and further her majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, discharges and strictly prohibits the subjects of this kingdom to meet and assemble together in arms after the publication hereof upon any pretence whatsoever during the space foresaid, without her majesty's special command or express licence had or obtained thereto, and requires and commands all the subjects of this kingdom to retire to their own habitations and lawful employments, certifying such as shall do in the contrary that they shall be liable to the pains of high treason, conforming to the laws and acts of parliament made against unlawful convocations risings in arms.
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And the said act and the proclamation mentioned in the minutes of the last sederunt were ordered to be forthwith published and printed.
Thereafter the seventh article of union was again read and, after reasoning upon that part thereof not formerly approved, it was put to the vote, approve of the rest of the said seventh article or not, and it carried approve.
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A print was then given in entitled An account of the burning of the articles of union at Dumfries, bearing the declaration read and affixed at the market cross thereof by the tumult assembled on that occasion, and it being moved that enquiry shall be made who has been the printer and submitter of the said scurrilous paper and that the print be burnt by the hand of the hangman, it was remitted to the committee to whom the sixth article of union is remitted to call for the magistrates of Edinburgh, and to take trial and make enquiry anent the printer and submitter of the said paper. Ordered also that the said scurrilous print be burned by the hand of the common hangman at the market cross of Edinburgh upon Monday next between 11 and 12 o'clock and the magistrates of Edinburgh appointed to see the orders punctually executed.
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Then the eighth article of union was read and remitted to the committee to whom the sixth article is remitted.
Act for adjourning the session until 1 January next read, and a clause was offered to be subjoined thereto in these terms: and further her majesty, with advice and consent foresaid, statutes and ordains that the session which is appointed to rise the last day of February next be continued to sit for administration of justice to the lieges from the said day to the last day of March 1707 inclusive. Which being read the consideration of the said clause delayed until the act be again read, and a first reading was ordered to be marked on the act.
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Thereafter it was intimated to all such members as gave in any overtures or clauses (relating to the sixth article of union) to attend the committee next sederunt.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Tuesday next at 10 o'clock.