Apud Halyrudhous, vicesimo octavo Julii 1631

Sederunt

Sederunt: chanceller, Sanct Andrewes, privie seale, Wintoun, Linlithgow, Perth, Stirline, Lord Gordoun, Lord Areskine, Bishop Dunkelden, Bishop Ros, Bishop Dumblane, Bishop Yles, Lord Melvill, Lord Carnegie, Lord Naper, Traquair, secretar, clerk register, advocat, Sir Johne Scot, Sir Robert Douglas, Sir James Baillie.

  1. NAS, PC1/34, f.27r. Back
  2. NAS, PC1/34, f.27r. Back
Procedure: burgh commissioners' appearance before the privy council; continuation

The whilk day the commissioners for the burrowes compeirand personallie before the lords of privie counsell, and being demandit if they wer resolved to give thair answere anent the fishing and the places craved to be reserved for the use of the natives, they declared that they wer not yet resolved thairin. Thairfoir the saids lords ordains thame to conveene amongs thameselffes and to advise anent suche places as they crave to be reserved for the fishing of the natives and without the whilk the countrie cannot subsist, and to report thair answere thereanent to the saids lords at Perth upon the tweutie ane day of September nixt.

  1. NAS, PC1/34, f.27r. Back
  2. NAS, PC1/34, f.27r. Back