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In the parliament held at Edinburgh and that session thereof concluded 11 June 1640, compeared personally in open and plain parliament James Dawling, merchant burgess of the burgh of Queensferry and commissioner chosen by the said burgh to this present parliament, and, as commissioner for the same burgh, gave and produced the instruments and protestation underwritten, whereof the tenor follows: I, James Dawling, merchant and burgess of the burgh of Queensferry and commissioner chosen by the said burgh to this present parliament, for myself as commissioner and in name and on behalf of the provost, bailies, council and community of the said burgh take instruments in the hands of the clerk of this present parliament that at the entry of this parliament I produced my commission for Queensferry, which was then received, marked and admitted by the clerks of parliament and yet lies in their hands with the records thereof, and that according thereto I, as commissioner foresaid, have ridden, sat and voiced in this parliament as the rest of the commissioners of burghs have done, and that according to our infeftment of erection of the said burgh in a free burgh royal, after long contentious dispute against the burghs compearing and opposing before the lords of exchequer, and protest in name foresaid that the same riding, sitting and voicing foresaid may be a legal possession of the liberties of our said burgh, according to our infeftment. And after production thereof desired that the same might be publicly read for the said burgh of Queensferry and in name and on behalf of the provosts, bailies, council and community thereof, which according to the foresaid desire was publicly read in open and plain parliament and in audience thereof, whereupon James Dawling, as commissioner for the said burgh and in name and on behalf of the provost, bailies, council and community thereof, asked instruments. Likewise James Glen, merchant burgess of Linlithgow, commissioner chosen to this present parliament for the said burgh of Linlithgow, protested in the contrary of the instruments and protestation above-mentioned made and taken for Queensferry, and that the commissioner for Queensferry had neither ridden, sat nor voiced in parliament for Queensferry; and thereupon the said James Glen, commissioner for the burgh of Linlithgow, in name of the said burgh and whole burghs, asked instruments and protested in the contrary of the foresaid protestation made for Queensferry.