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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Then the following addresses were given in and read, namely: address of the magistrates, town council, merchants, deacons of crafts and other inhabitants within the burgh of Crail, subscribing the same; address of heritors and commoners in the parish of East Monkland, subscribing the same; address of heritors and commoners in the parish of Shotts, subscribing the same; address of heritors and commoners in the parish of Dalserf, subscribing the same; address of heritors and commoners in the parish of Stenhouse, subscribers of the same; address of a body of people in the south and western shires, subscribed by Mr John Hepburn and another seven persons; and an address of the magistrates, town council and other inhabitants of the burgh of Kirkcudbright, subscribers of the same, all against allowing a union with England in the terms of the articles.
Thereafter the parliament proceeded to the further consideration of the act for security of the true Protestant religion and government of the church of Scotland as by law established, and the fourth clause thereof again read, whereupon it was moved that a clause should be added in these terms: and that they shall be capable of any office, civil or military, and to receive any grant, gift or right, and to have command or place of trust from and under the sovereign within any part of Great Britain. And, after debate thereupon, it was put to the vote add the above clause or not, and it carried not. And the clause as it stood in the draft of the act agreed to.
Then the fifth clause of the act was also read and agreed to, with some amendments.
And the next clause, being again read and amended, was likewise agreed to.
Whereupon the whole act was again read, as also the last representation and petition of the commission of the general assembly of this church, and a vote was thereupon stated approve the act or not.
But before voting [John Hamilton], lord Belhaven gave in a protestation in these terms: that he did protest in his own name and in name of all those who shall adhere to him that this act is no valid security to the church of Scotland as it is now established by law in case of an incorporating union, and that the church of Scotland can have no real and solid security by any manner of union by which the Claim of Right is unhinged, our parliament incorporated and our distinct sovereignty and independency entirely abolished. Which being read he took instruments thereupon, and [James Douglas], duke of Hamilton, [John Murray], duke of Atholl, [William Johnston], marquis of Annandale, [Charles Hay], earl of Erroll, [William Keith], earl Marischal, [John Fleming], earl of Wigtown, [Charles Hamilton Douglas], earl of Selkirk, [Alexander Bruce], earl of Kincardine, the viscounts [David Murray, viscount of] Stormont and [William Livingston, viscount of] Kilsyth, the lords [Patrick Oliphant, lord] Oliphant, [Walter Stewart, lord] Blantyre, [Robert Colville, lord] Colville [of Ochiltree] and [Patrick Kinnaird, lord] Kinnaird, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, John Brisbane, younger, of Bishopton, Mr William Cochrane of Kilmaronock, Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, Robert Rollo of Powhouse, John Murray of Strowan, Francis Mollison, Mr John Carruthers [of Denbie] and George Home adhered thereto.
Moved that all the members should be marked as they shall approve the act or not, and also as they shall adhere to the protestation, and that the list of the members as they shall vote pro or con shall be printed, and agreed to.
Then the vote was put approve the act or not, and it carried approve.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner adjourned the parliament, until Thursday next at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament