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Thereafter the eighteenth article of union was read and, after reasoning thereon, an overture was given in for adding a clause in these terms: that all Scotsmen be exempt from the English sacramental test not only in Scotland but in all places of the united kingdom and dominions thereinto belonging, and that they be declared capable of offices throughout the whole, without being obliged to take the said test.
And after debate, it being moved that it was not now entire to add the said clause in relation to the sacramental test, in respect of the vote of parliament of 12 November last against adding the like clause, after some further discourse thereon, it was agreed that the same should be put to the vote, and that the members' votes be marked and the list of their names as they shall vote be printed and recorded.