Reference in favour of [Robert Maxwell], earl of Nithsdale

The which day the supplication given in to the king's majesty and parliament by Robert, earl of Nithsdale, desiring the king and parliament to appoint a committee to hear him and such as he does complain upon and to decide therein as they shall think agreeable to equity, as the supplication more fully purports, being read in audience of the king's majesty and parliament, his majesty and estates of parliament have remitted and remit the foresaid supplication to the lords of his highness's secret council.

  1. NAS, PA2/22, f.201r. Back