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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Warrant granted for citing the creditors of the burgh of Dundee in order to the magistrates and town council of the said burgh their obtaining protection.
Proclamation for prorogating the diet for the choosing of collectors and clerks of the supply and continuing the last collectors and clerks for the term of Candlemas [2 February] next read and, after some amendments, it was voted and approved.
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Edinburgh, 13 January 1707 †
Anne, by the grace of God, queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, to our lyon king at arms, and his brethren heralds, macers, pursuivants and messengers at arms, our sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally, specially constituted, greetings. Forasmuch as by the act of supply passed and published this present session of parliament, the last Thursday of January instant is appointed for the meeting of the commissioners of supply, in order to choose their collectors and clerks for uplifting and receiving the supply mentioned in the said act of parliament; and in regard the members of parliament cannot be present to attend the said diet prefixed for choosing the said collectors and clerks, it is necessary that the said former diet be prorogate in manner underwritten. Therefore we, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, do hereby prorogate the said diet for the meeting of the commissioners of the said supply for choosing of their respective collectors and clerks, until the second Thursday of April next, and appoints the said commissioners to meet and convene on the said day at the head burghs of the several shires and stewartries within this kingdom, and choose their respective collectors and clerks to the said supply, in the way and manner as is prescribed in the act of parliament. And we, with advice and consent foresaid, hereby ordain and appoint the former collectors and clerks to the last term's supply to continue to uplift and receive the respective term's cess due and payable at Candlemas [2 February] next, with the fourth part of a month's cess and supply due and payable to Mrs†Ramsay at the said term, the said collectors always between then and the said term finding sufficient caution at the sight of a quorum of the commissioners of the last supply, to be accountable for and making payment of the said term's cess and supply, and likewise for the last month's cess and supply payable on 10 December last, which they were obliged to uplift. Our will is here expressed, and we charge you that immediately you pass to the market cross of Edinburgh, and to the market crosses of the remaining other head burghs of the respective shires and burghs within this kingdom, and there make due and lawful publication hereof, that none pretend ignorance. And ordains these words to be printed, and that the solicitors dispatch copies hereof to be published at the market crosses of the head burghs of the said several shires and stewartries within this kingdom.
Extracted furth of the records of parliament, by James Murray, clerk register.
Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the queen's most excellent majesty, in the year 1707.
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Then the twenty-third article of union was again read and, after some reasoning, an overture was given in for adding a clause thereto in these terms: with this express provision that none of the peers of Scotland shall have personal protection within Scotland for any debt owing before the commencement of the union.
As also, another overture was given in for adding a clause thereto in these terms: that all the peers of that part of Great Britain now called Scotland, qualified according to law, shall, after the union, have right to sit covered in the house of peers of Great Britain, notwithstanding that the right to give vote therein belongs only to the said sixteen peers who are to be summoned in the manner appointed by the preceding article.
And after reasoning upon the said two overtures, and upon two separate motions, the first in relation to the allowing all the peers of Scotland to sit upon the trial of the peers of Britain, and the other in relation to their precedency according to their patents, the vote was stated in these terms, approve the twenty-third article of union or alter, reserving entire the consideration of the above two overtures, and whether the same shall be added to the article, and it carried approve.
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Then the first overture for the clause in relation to personal protection was again read and, after debate, it was put to the vote, add the clause or not, and it carried not.
Thereafter the second overture, for a clause in relation to all the peers of Scotland their sitting covered in the house of peers of Great Britain, was again read and, after reasoning, the vote was put add the clause or not. But, before voting, it was agreed that the members' votes shall be marked and that the list of their names as they vote be printed and recorded.
Then it was put to the vote, add the clause or not, and it carried not.
So in the parliament on 13 January 1707 a vote was stated in these terms, add the following clause to the twenty-third article of union, namely: that all the peers of that part of Great Britain now called Scotland, qualified according to law, shall, after the union, have right to sit covered in the house of peers of Great Britain, notwithstanding that the right to give vote therein belongs only to the said sixteen peers who are to be summoned in the manner appointed by the preceding article, yes or no, and it carried not, and the list of members as they voted add or not (ordered to be printed) is as follows.
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Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.