Petition of Lady Mary Bruce and William Cochrane, younger of Ochiltree, her husband, craving allowance to retain the papers therein-mentioned, and the petitioners' receipt thereof to be given up, and also that the declarator therein narrated, at their instance, may be discussed before the lords of session, summarily read and the writs therein mentioned ordained to be put in the clerk's hands, and [Alexander Bruce], earl of Kincardine's procurators ordained to see and answer the said petition against the first sederunt of parliament for private business.
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Then the draft of an act settling the manner of the electing and summoning the sixteen peers and forty-five commoners to represent Scotland in the parliament of Great Britain, read. And, thereupon, a vote was put, allow a first reading to be marked on the said act, yes or no, and it carried allow, and a first reading was marked thereon accordingly.