1630, 28 July, Holyroodhouse, Convention

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Convention

At Holyroodhouse, 28 July 1630

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George [Hay], viscount of Dupplin, chancellor, William [Douglas], earl of Morton, treasurer, [William Graham, earl of Menteith], president of the council, Thomas [Hamilton], earl of Haddington, lord privy seal, John [Spottiswood], archbishop of St Andrews, George [Gordon], marquis of Huntly, [William Keith], earl Marischal, [John Erskine, earl of] Mar, [John Leslie, earl of] Rothes, [John Kennedy, earl of] Cassilis, [James Erskine, earl of] Buchan, [James Stewart, earl of] Moray, [George Seton, earl of] Winton, [Alexander Livingstone, earl of] Linlithgow, [James Home, earl of] Home, [John Drummond, earl of] Perth, [John Fleming, earl of] Wigtown, [John Lyon, earl of] Kinghorn, [James Hamilton, earl of] Abercorn, [Patrick Murray, earl of] Tullibardine, [Robert Ker, earl of] Roxburghe, [Walter Scott, earl of] Buccleuch, [Colin MacKenzie, earl of] Seaforth, [John Murray, earl of] Annandale, [John Maitland, earl of] Lauderdale, [John Stewart, earl of] Carrick, [William Crichton], viscount of Ayr and [William Douglas, viscount of] Drumlanrig, [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, [Andrew Boyd, bishop of] Argyll, [John Leslie, bishop of the] Isles, [Andrew Gray], lord Gray, [John Hay, lord] Yester, [Hugh Sempill, lord] Sempill, [Simon Fraser, lord Fraser of] Lovat, [James Ross, lord] Ross, [John Sandilands, lord] Torphichen, [Alexander Lindsay, lord] Spynie, [John Campbell, lord] Loudoun, [John Elphinstone, lord] Balmerino, [James Elphinstone, lord] Coupar, [James Colville, lord] Colville [of Culross], [William Stewart, lord] Blantyre, [Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of] Burleigh, [John Bothwell, lord] Holyroodhouse, [John Cranston, lord] Cranston, [Robert Melville, lord] Melville, [David Carnegie, lord] Carnegie, [William Ramsay, lord] Ramsay, [Archibald Napier, lord] Napier, [John Wemyss, lord] Wemyss, [John Stewart, lord] Traquair, Sir William Alexander [of Menstrie], secretary, Sir John Hamilton of Magdalens, clerk register, Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight baronet, advocate, Sir George Elphinstone of Blythswood, justice clerk.

Commissioners for the small barons of the sheriffdoms of:
Edinburgh
The lairds [Sir James MacGill] of Cranstoun-Riddel and [Sir James Richardson of] Smeaton
Haddington
Sir Robert Richardson of Pencaitland
Berwick
The lairds [Sir Patrick Hume] of Polwarth and [Sir Alexander Nisbet of] West Nisbet
Roxburgh
Sir James Kerr of Hundelie and the laird [John Rutherford] of Hunthill
Selkirk
Sir James Pringle of Galashiels
Peebles
The laird [William Veitch] of Dawyck and James Naismith of Posso
Lanark
[Gavin] Hamilton of Raploch and the laird [Sir James Lockhart] of Lee, younger
Dumfries
Robert MacBrair [of Almagill and Netherwood]
Linlithgow
The laird [William Drummond] of Riccarton
Stirling
The laird [Sir David Livingstone] of Dunipace and John Erskine of Balgonie
Ayr
The lairds [Bryce] Blair [of that Ilk] and [Alexander Cunningham of] Corsehill
Argyll and Tarbert
The laird [Sir Coll Lamont] of Lamont
Fife
The laird [Robert Forbes] of Rires
Perth
The lairds [John Haldane] of Gleneagles and [Andrew Rollo of] Duncrub
Forfar
The lairds [Alexander Erskine] of Dun and [James Lyon of] Auldbar
Kincardine
The lairds [Sir Alexander Strachan] of Thornton and [David Ramsay of] Balmain
Aberdeen
The lairds [Thomas Erskine] of Pittodrie [and Balhagardy] and Thomas Crombie of Kemnay
Nairn
The laird [John Campbell] of Cawdor, younger
Inverness
Sir Robert Gordon [of Gordonstoun], knight baronet
Commissioners for the burghs of:
Edinburgh
Alexander Clerk [of Stenton and Pittencrieff] and James Guthrie
Perth
Andrew Gray
Dundee
Thomas Haliburton
Aberdeen
Paul Menzies [of Kinmundy]
Stirling
Thomas Bruce [of Weltoun]
St Andrews
James Watson
Glasgow
Gabriel Cunningham
Ayr
James Blair
Linlithgow
Andrew Bell
Haddington
Master James Cockburn
Dysart
Master David Kinghorn
Kirkcaldy
John Williamson
Montrose
Patrick Leighton [of Dunenld]
Cupar
David Anderson
Anstruther Easter
Thomas Martin
Anstruther Wester
Robert Richardson
Burntisland
William Meiklejohn
Inverkeithing
Harry Kinglassie
Kinghorn
Patrick Wallace
Culross
Master Edward Blair
Dunfermline
Patrick Coupar
Crail
John MacKieson
Pittenweem
George Kinghorn
Dumfries
John Irvine
Irvine
James Scott [of Clonbeith]
Jedburgh
Alexander Kirkton
Selkirk
Master John Kerr
Peebles
James Williamson [of Aikerfield]
Dunbar
George Purves
Lanark
Gideon Jack
Dumbarton
John Semple [of Stainflett]
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