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Prayers said. Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Additional list of commissioners of supply for several shires given in and read, and ordered to be added to the commissioners formerly named for the said respective shires.
Thereafter the act concerning public debts, read a second time and again read over by paragraphs and, after some amendments and additions, the act as amended was voted and approved.
Petition for [John Lindsay], earl of Crawford for an allowance for his father's charges and trouble as president to the parliament of 1690, read and the petition recommended to her majesty in the terms of a deliverance upon the petition.†
Then it was moved that now, in the conclusion of the parliament, a letter to her majesty be brought in, and a draft of a letter being accordingly brought in and read, the same, after some amendments, was voted and approved.
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May it please your majesty,
We your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the noblemen and commissioners from shires and burghs assembled in parliament do, with most humble thankfulness, acknowledge that this nation has enjoyed many advantages under your majesty's most happy government. But above all, we beg leave to return our most humble and hearty thanks to your majesty for the great care and concern you have shown to bring the treaty of union of your majesty's two kingdoms of Scotland and England to a happy conclusion. This union, which has often been attempted by your royal predecessors without effect, is, by the special blessing of heaven upon your majesty's reign and your wise conduct, now brought to perfection which, with the settlement of the succession in the Protestant line, has established a lasting monument of your majesty's glory to all future ages, and laid a firm foundation of the security of our religion and the peace and prosperity of this island.
We assure your majesty we shall do our utmost in our several stations to promote mutual good correspondence with our neighbours of England that we may be united in our hearts and affection for your majesty's service and the public interest of your United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Your majesty was pleased by your most gracious letter to recommend to us to provide supplies for your troops, garrisons and ships here. We have cheerfully offered to your majesty such supplies as the present circumstances of this nation could possibly bear, and we in all humility entreat and hope your majesty will graciously accept of them.
Your majesty's choice of [James Douglas], duke of Queensberry to represent your royal person in this session of parliament was most acceptable to us and we cannot but acknowledge that the success in the weighty affairs which have been before us is very much owing to his prudent and steady conduct.
May God Almighty, who has hitherto blessed your majesty's arms and councils with wonderful success, preserve and prosper your majesty long for a lasting blessing to your people, and a firm support to your allies. We are with all submission and duty,
Subscribed in the presence by warrant and in name of the estates of parliament by, may it please your majesty, your majesty's most loyal most faithful and most obedient subject and servant, [James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament, Edinburgh, 24 March 1707.
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Thereafter the following petitions, namely petition of Thomas Lockhart, surveyor at Leith, petition of Ensign William Dick, petition of [Robert]† Henderson, librarian of the college of Edinburgh, were all moved and recommended to her majesty in the terms of the deliverance on their respective petitions.†
Petition of Alexander Black and partners of a starch manufactory for enduing their work with the privileges of other manufactories, and for imposing a duty on foreign starch, read and the desire thereof granted in part conform to a deliverance on the petition.†
James Finlayson, servant to Mr Robert Alexander, one of the clerks of council and session, recommended to her majesty's treasury conforming to a deliverance on his petition.†
Petition of John Hamilton, town clerk of Irvine, moved and recommended to her majesty in the terms of a deliverance thereon.†
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Overture for an act in favour of manufactories for wool read, and a first reading ordered to be marked thereon.
Petition for James Cunningham of Auchinharvie, younger, moved and the consideration thereof delayed until the next sederunt of parliament.
Thereafter John Corse, writer in Edinburgh, and John Smith, late muster-master depute, were recommended to her majesty conforming to deliverance on the respective petitions.†
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.