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The lord commissioner's grace and the foresaid lords of the articles, with the said officers of state, sat daily and each day at the times and diets appointed by the commissioner's grace and lords of the articles within the inner house of the great parliament house foresaid, where the lords of the articles were chosen, and there considered, advised and consulted upon the articles and matters which were presented and motioned to them and upon the petitions, acts, laws, ratifications and others given in to them from the said 31 August 1639 foresaid to 14 November 1639. Upon the which day the said Sir Thomas Hope [of Craighall], advocate to our sovereign lord, compeared in the outer house of the parliament in presence of Robert [Ker], earl of Roxburghe, lord privy seal, John [Maitland], earl of Lauderdale, Archibald [Napier], lord Napier, Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston, justice clerk, and Sir James Carmichael, depute treasurer, with a frequent number of the nobility, barons and burgess, and produced the warrant underwritten for prorogation of the parliament to 2 June 1640, whereof the tenor follows: