Charles I: Translation

1625, 27 October, Edinburgh, Convention

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At Edinburgh, 27 October 1625

Convention

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Sederunt

• For the nobility
• [Sir George Hay of Kinfauns], chancellor
• [John Erskine, earl of Mar], treasurer
• [John Spottiswood, archbishop of] St Andrews
• [William Keith, earl] Marischal
• [John Leslie, earl of] Rothes
• [William Douglas, earl of] Morton
• [Alexander Montgomery, earl of] Eglinton
• [John Kennedy, earl of] Cassilis
• [James Erskine, earl of] Buchan
• [James Stewart, earl of] Moray
• [George Sinclair, earl of] Caithness
• [George Seton, earl of] Winton
• [Alexander Livingstone, earl of] Linlithgow
• [John Drummond, earl of] Perth
• [John Fleming, earl of] Wigtown
• [John Lyon, earl of] Kinghorn
• [Robert Ker, earl of] Roxburghe
• [Walter Scott, earl of] Buccleuch
• [Thomas Hamilton, earl of] Melrose
• [Alexander Stewart, earl of] Galloway
• [John Maitland, earl of] Lauderdale
• [David Murray], viscount of Stormont
• • Bishops
  • [Alexander Lindsay, bishop of] Dunkeld
  • [Patrick Forbes, bishop of] Aberdeen
  • [John Guthrie, bishop of] Moray
  • [Andrew Lamb, bishop of] Galloway
  • [David Lindsay, bishop of] Brechin
  • [Adam Bellenden, bishop of] Dunblane
  • [John Abernethy, bishop of] Caithness
• • Lords
  • [Andrew Gray, lord] Gray
  • [John Hay, lord] Yester
  • [Hugh Sempill, lord] Sempill
  • [Alexander Elphinstone, lord] Elphinstone
  • [James Ogilvie, lord] Ogilvie
  • [James Ross, lord] Ross
  • [Robert Boyd, lord] Boyd
  • [John Sandilands, lord] Torphichen
  • [John Campbell, lord] Loudoun
  • [John Elphinstone, lord] Balmerino
  • [James Colville, lord Colville of] Culross
  • [William Stewart, lord] Blantyre
  • [Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of] Burleigh
  • [William Cranston, lord] Cranston
  • [Robert Melville, lord] Melville
  • [James Elphinstone, lord] Coupar
  • [David Carnegie, lord] Carnegie
  • [George Ramsay, lord] Ramsay

• Officers of state
• [Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington], privy seal
• [Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston], treasurer depute
• [Sir William Oliphant of Newton], advocate
• [Sir William Alexander of Menstrie], master of requests

Commissioners for the sheriffdoms of:

Edinburgh

[Sir George Forrester of] Corstorphine

Sir James Dundas [of Arniston]

Haddington

Sir John Seaton [of Barns]

[Alexander Acheson of] Gosford

Berwick

[Sir Alexander Nisbet of] West Nisbet

[James Cockburn of] Ryslaw

Roxburgh

[Sir William MacDougall of] Makerston

[Sir James Haliburton of] Morislaw

Peebles

[Sir John Stewart of] Traquair

[Sir Archibald Murray of] Blackbarony

Lanark

[Sir John Hamilton of] Lettrick

[Sir Robert Hamilton of] Goslington

Dumfries

[Sir John Charteris of] Amisfield

[Sir William Grierson of] Lag

Linlithgow

[Walter Cornwall of] Bonhard

[Sir William Lawson of] Boghall

Stirling

[Sir Archibald Stirling of] Keir

[Sir John Murray of Touchadam and] Polmaise

Ayr

[John Cathcart of] Carleton

[David Dunbar of] Enterkine

Fife

[Sir James Learmonth of] Balcomie

[Master Patrick Wardlaw of] Torry

Perth

[Sir Alexander Menzies of that Ilk and of] Weem

[Patrick Kinnaird of] Inchture

Kincardine

[Sir Robert Graham of] Morphie

[David Ramsay of] Balmain

Aberdeen

[James Crichton of] Frendraught

[James Gordon of] Lesmoir, younger

Inverness

[Sir Thomas Urquhart], sheriff of Cromarty

Commissioners for the burghs of:

Edinburgh

John MacNaught

Thomas Weir

Perth

Andrew Gray

Dundee

Thomas Haliburton

Aberdeen

Paul Menzies [of Kinmundy]

Stirling

John Cowan [of Taylorton]

Linlithgow

James Glen

Ayr

John Osborne

St Andrews

Robert Taylor

Glasgow

Patrick Bell

Haddington

Master James Cockburn

Dumfries

Francis Irvine

Montrose

Robert Keith [of Powburn and Brydistoune]

Cupar

David Anderson

Culross

George Bruce [of Carnock]

Brechin

John Udny

Burntisland

William Meiklejohn

Crail

John Mackieson

Inverness

Duncan Forbes [of Culloden]

Forfar

Master David Pearson

Anstruther Easter

Robert Alexander

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