Procedure: overture read a second time; protests to be cited

Overture for an act concerning surgeons and apothecaries in Edinburgh, read a second time.

Petition for the royal college of physicians in Edinburgh against the said act also read and, after reasoning, it was moved that the physicians ought to be cited before the act can pass, and it was also moved that the physicians be heard thereupon next sederunt of parliament. And, after further reasoning, the vote was stated, hear the parties' procurators next sederunt or cite, and it carried cite.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.85/262v (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. APS has title 'Act in favour of William Cochrane of Ferguslie' but no text. Text not yet discovered. Back
Petition: read and granted

Petition for William Cochrane of Ferguslie in relation to his exoneration of the balance of his tack duty for the polls imposed by the parliament 1698, read and the desire thereof granted conforming to the deliverance on the petition.†

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.85/262v (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. APS has title 'Act in favour of William Cochrane of Ferguslie' but no text. Text not yet discovered. Back
Procedure: adjournment

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Wednesday next at 10 o'clock.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.85/262v (note parallel folio system). Back
  2. APS has title 'Act in favour of William Cochrane of Ferguslie' but no text. Text not yet discovered. Back