The articles of the treaty between the kingdoms being written and drawn up in its entirety, with the instructions to the commissioners at London relating thereto and a letter to his majesty, and being all publicly read in presence of the estates of parliament, the said estates approve the same and ordain the clerk to subscribe and mark the articles of the treaty upon the back thereof at the battering of the throughs†, and also to mark the supplication from those who are fled out of Ireland, and ordain [Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of Burleigh], president of the parliament, to subscribe the instructions, and those who subscribed the first letter direct to his majesty to subscribe this also.
The estates of parliament thought it expedient to give only one particular answer to the articles of the treaty which required greatest expedition, and that for the present they will only give a general answer to the demands exhibited by [Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline and [John Campbell], lord Loudoun or any other articles not contained in the treaty until his majesty come in person for concluding this parliament, which they think will prove satisfactory. In respect whereof, the Earl of Dunfermline and Lord Loudoun declared that the performance of his majesty's intended favours expressed by them concerning these particulars not contained in the treaty are likewise in his majesty's own free arbitrament to do therein as he in his royal wisdom shall think expedient, in the same way as if the said propositions had never been made in parliament.
The estates nominate and appoint the Lord Loudoun only to return to the other commissioners at London with the articles of the treaty, to the effect there may be an equal number of commissioners for each estate at London.
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The estates of parliament, having considered the articles produced and given in against the Earl of Montrose, have found and find the same to be a sufficient ground of citation of the same earl and of any other person before the parliament whom the same articles may concern, and to whose charge the said articles or any of them might be laid, and in particular of the Lord Napier, the laird of Keir, the Laird of Blackhall, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Stewart, and thereafter ordain summons to be raised thereupon and the said persons to be cited; and for doing hereof they find and declare it to be incumbent to Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight, his majesty's advocate, to concur, plead and insist to the final division of these pursuits as concerning the public, and therefore the said estates of parliament command him to do the same in these pursuits and in all other pursuits to be intended before the parliament or committees from parliament which may concern the public. Likewise they find it fit to require and command and hereby the said estates enjoin, require and command Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, knight, to concur with the said Sir Thomas Hope, Masters Roger Mowat, Alexander Pearson, James Baird and Thomas Nicolson, procurators formerly appointed by the committee for the estate, to draw up the said summons and to insist in consulting and pleading in the said process and whole proceedings thereof to the final end of the same and in any other process of the nature above-written to be intended and followed before the parliament or committee from parliament. And likewise command the said Masters Alexander Pearson, Roger Mowat, James Baird and Thomas Nicolson, with concourse and assistance foresaid, to draw up the said summons and to insist in the said process and whole proceedings thereof to the final end of the same. And also ordain the said summons and all other summons to be raised before the parliament or committees from the parliament to be raised at the instance of the said Sir Thomas Hope as his majesty's advocate and at the instance of the said Sir Thomas Nicolson, Masters Roger Mowat, Alexander Pearson, James Baird and Thomas Nicolson as procurators for the estate, and ordain the summons to be stamped by the keeper of the signet, and also ordain that a precept of the same tenor with the summons be directed in name of [Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of Burleigh], president of the parliament, and be subscribed by the president; for doing whereof, these shall be a warrant.