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Prayers said.
Rolls called.
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Petition of Lady Mary Bruce and William Cochrane, younger, of Ochiltree, her husband, craving allowance to retain the papers mentioned therein, and the petitioner's 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.
Then the draft of an act settling the manner of the electing and summoning the 16 peers and 45 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.
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament