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7 August 1649
The estates of parliament, now presently convened in this third session of this second triennial parliament, being upon good reason to dissolve for this present session of parliament and to continue the same to a new diet, and considering how necessary it is (for the good of religion, king and kingdoms, for preventing and remedying of all evils and dangers that may befall to any of those from internal commotions or foreign invasions, for preserving the peace of the kingdom and union between both, and for doing, acting and ordering all things relating either to peace or war agreeable to the covenant and ends thereof) that a grand committee be nominated and appointed by them of able and well qualified persons, do therefore nominate, elect and make choice of the persons following, namely: for the noblemen: Archibald [Campbell], marquis of Argyll, John [Gordon], earl of Sutherland, Alexander [Montgomery], earl of Eglinton, John [Kennedy], earl of Cassilis, Francis [Scott], earl of Buccleuch, William [Kerr], earl of Lothian, Robert [Arbuthnott], viscount of Arbuthnott, Archibald [Douglas], lord Angus, [David Wemyss], lord Elcho, [George Maule], lord Brechin, Alan [Cathcart], lord Cathcart, William [Ross], lord Ross, John [Borthwick], lord Borthwick, John [Elphinstone], lord Balmerino, Robert [Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh, James [Elphinstone], lord Coupar, [John MacLellan], lord Kirkcudbright, [Andrew Fraser], lord Fraser, and [William Forbes], master of Forbes; as likewise the said estates do add to the aforenamed noblemen: [Patrick Maule], earl of Panmure, John [Hay], earl of Tweeddale, [George Forrester], lord Forrester, [Alexander Lindsay], lord Balcarres. And for the barons: Arthur Erskine of Scotscraig, Sir James Halkett of Pitfirrane, George Dundas of Duddingston, Mr John Dickson of Busby, Sir James Hope of [Hopetoun], Sir David Home of Wedderburn, knight, [John] Swinton, younger, of that ilk, Sir Charles Erskine of [Alva, Bandeath and] Cambuskenneth, Sir William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead, Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock, knight, Sir Andrew Kerr of Greenhead, Sir Thomas Ruthven of Freeland, Sir Robert Adair of Kinhilt, Andrew Agnew, fiar of Lochnaw, Sir George Maxwell of Nether Pollok, John Dickson of Hartree, Sir John Brown of Fordell, Arthur Forbes of Echt, Mr William Sandilands of Hilderston, John Cockburn of Ormiston, Sir John Chiesley of Kersewell, knight, Alexander Brodie of that ilk, Mr George Winram of Liberton; to which aforenamed barons the said estates do add the particular persons following to be also upon the committee of estates, namely: Sir John Hope of Craighall, knight, Sir Alexander Belsches of Tofts, knight, [Sir] John Shaw of Greenock, Sir Ludovic Houston of that ilk, knight, Sir William Scott of Clerkington, Colonel Walter Scott of Hartwoodburn, Mr Thomas Nicolson, his majesty's advocate, the lairds [Sir John Wauchope of] Niddrie-[Marischal], [Robert Hepburn of] Keith, [Sir Alexander Inglis of] Ingliston, [John Hepburn of] Waughton, [Sir James Arnott of] Fernie, [Sir John Moncreiffe of] Moncreiffe, [Sir John Sinclair of] Dunbeath, [Robert Munro of] Obsdale, Sir Daniel Carmichael [of Hyndford], treasurer depute, Sir James Fraser of Brae, Sir Lewis Gordon of Gordonstoun. And for the burghs: James Borthwick [of Stow] for Edinburgh, Patrick Ross for Perth, Robert Davidson for Dundee, George Porterfield for Glasgow, Alexander Jaffray for Aberdeen, James Sword for St Andrews, Thomas Bruce [of Weltoun] for Stirling, James Campbell for Linlithgow, Hugh Kennedy for Ayr, Mr Robert Barclay for Irvine, Mr James Campbell for Dumbarton, Gideon Jack for Lanark, Mr John Hay for Elgin, Thomas MacBirnie for Dumfries, John Forbes [of Culloden] for Inverness, William Simpson for Dysart, George Gardyne for Burntisland, John Boswell for Kinghorn, Mr Alexander Douglas [of Downies] for Banff, George Jamieson for Cupar, James MacCulloch for Whithorn and William Glendinning [of Gelstoun], provost of Kirkcudbright; to which aforenamed persons of the burghs the said estates likewise add the persons following to be upon the committee of estates: Sir William Dick of Braid, knight, Sir John Smith of Grotehill, knight, Robert Lockhart, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, John Short, burgess of Stirling, Mr William Moir, burgess of Aberdeen, and James Roughead, bailie of Edinburgh. Likewise the said estates add as supernumeraries to the aforenamed persons of the committee of estates the persons following: John [Campbell], earl of Loudoun, high chancellor of this realm, the general officers Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, knight, clerk register, Sir James Stewart of Kirkfield [and Coltness], commissary-general; to whom, or any nine of them, the said estates of parliament give and grant the same power, warrant and commission to meet and convene at such times and places as they shall think fit, and give and grant to them the whole power and authority and to take such course and resolutions to give orders and directions in discharge of the great trust committed to them during the interval of parliament as was formerly given to the said committee of estates in the month of March 1649 and in the whole particulars therein mentioned, admitting the generality hereof to be as sufficient as if every particular contained in the said former commission were herein word by word expressed. And further the said estates of parliament give and grant full power and warrant to the aforesaid committee being frequently convened to proportion the maintenance after 1 November next, according to the new valuations that shall come in between now and that time. And the said estates of parliament do hereby discharge all former commissions to any committee of estates, and appoint this present commission to endure to the next session of parliament and until the same be simply discharged.