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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Representation and petition of the commission of the general assembly of this church representing the increase of popery, profanity and other irregularities and craving the same may be restrained, and that the succession to the crown may be established in the Protestant line, read and remitted to the committee for examining the calculation of the equivalent, to consider of proper methods for suppressing popery, profanity and other irregularities, and for execution of the laws already made, and to consider what laws may be further necessary for the effectual suppressing thereof and preventing the same.
Then the following addresses were given in and read, namely: address of merchants and trades of the city of Glasgow, subscribers of the same; address of feuars, masters of families and other inhabitants of Gorbals and muir thereof, subscribing the same; address of the parishioners of Biggar, subscribers of the same; and two several addresses of barons, heritors and freeholders of the shire of Lanark, subscribing the same, all against allowing an incorporating union with England in the terms of the articles.
Thereafter the second article of union was again read with the preliminary motion mentioned in the former day's minutes.
Whereupon it was moved that the parliament do proceed to settle the succession upon limitations and regulations in the terms of the resolve given in and narrated in the minutes of 4 November instant and not in the terms of the second article of union.
Moved also to address her majesty and to lay before her the condition of the nation and the great aversion in many persons to an incorporating union with England, and to acquaint her majesty of the inclinations and willingness to settle the succession in the Protestant line upon limitations and in order thereto that some recess be granted.
And, after debate upon these several motions, a vote was proposed approve of the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion inserted in the former day's minutes or not.
And, after some further debate, there was a second state of a vote offered in these terms: address or not.
And, after some reasoning which of the two should be the state of the vote, it was put to the vote whether first or second, and it carried first.
But it being moved that some further reasoning should be allowed before the vote were stated for approving the second article of union, after some debate thereupon, it was agreed that the English acts of parliament mentioned in the second article of union be read, and that immediately thereafter, without further debate, a vote should be stated: proceed to call the vote for approving the second article of union or delay, and, if it carried proceed, that the vote immediately thereafter, without any intervening debate, be put: approve of the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion mentioned in the last day's minutes or not.
And accordingly the acts of the English parliament mentioned in the second article of union were read.
Thereafter the vote was put proceed to call the vote for approving the said second article of union or delay, and it carried proceed.
Then the vote was put approve the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion inserted in the last day's minutes, yes or no.
But before voting [William Keith], earl Marischal gave in the following protest, whereby he did protest for himself and all those who shall adhere to this protestation that no person can be designed a successor to the crown of this realm after the death of her majesty, whom God long preserve, and failing heirs of her body who is successor to the crown of England, unless that in this present session of parliament or any other session of this or any ensuing parliament during her majesty's reign there be such conditions of government settled and enacted as may secure the honour and sovereignty of this crown and kingdom, the freedom, frequency and power of parliaments, the religion, liberty and trade of the nation from English or any foreign influence. Which being read, he took instruments thereupon, and the dukes [James Douglas, duke of] Hamilton and [John Murray, duke of] Atholl, the earls [Charles Hay, earl] of Erroll, [John Fleming, earl of] Wigtown and [John Lyon, earl of] Strathmore, the viscounts [David Murray, viscount of] Stormont and [William Livingston, viscount of] Kilsyth, the lords [William Fraser, lord] Saltoun, [Francis Sempill, lord] Sempill, [Patrick Oliphant, lord] Oliphant, [John Elphinstone, lord] Balmerino, [Walter Stewart, lord] Blantyre, [William Hamilton, lord] Bargany, [Robert Colville, lord] Colville [of Ochiltree] and [Patrick Kinnaird, lord] Kinnaird, George Lockhart of Carnwath, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Mr Alexander Ferguson of Isle, John Brisbane, younger, of Bishopton, Mr William Cochrane of Kilmaronock, John Graham of Killearn, James Graham of Buchlyvie, Robert Rollo of Powhouse, John Murray of Strowan, James Moir of Stoneywood, Mr Thomas Hope of Rankeilour, Mr Patrick Lyon of Auchterhouse, Mr James Carnegie of Finavon, David Graham, younger, of Fintry, James Ogilvie, younger, of Boyne, James Sinclair of Stemster, Mr George MacKenzie of Inchculter, Alexander Edgar, James Oswald [of Dunnikier], Alexander Duff [of Drummuir], Francis Mollison, George Smith [of Gibliston], Robert Scott, Robert Kellie, John Hutchison, Archibald Shiells, Mr John Lyon, Mr John Carruthers [of Denbie], George Home, John Bain [of Tulloch] and Mr Robert Fraser adhered thereto.
And it was agreed that the members be marked as they shall adhere to the protest and also as they shall vote approve or not, and that the list of the members' names as they shall vote pro or con be printed.
Then the vote was put approve or not, and it carried approve.
And the lord chancellor was allowed to have his name printed and recorded as an approver, as also to be recorded and printed amongst those who voted proceed to the second article the last sederunt.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until Monday next at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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In the parliament 15 November 1706, a vote was stated: approve of the second article of union in the terms of the preliminary motion in the preceding day's minutes, namely: that the agreeing to the second article of the treaty in relation to the succession of the crown of Great Britain shall not be binding or have any effect unless terms and conditions of union of the two kingdoms be finally adjusted and concluded and an act passed thereupon in the parliament, and that the said terms and conditions be also agreed to and ratified by an act of the parliament of England, yes or no. And it carried approve, and the list of the members as they voted pro or con (ordered to be printed) is as follows:
Approvers:
Nos: