Procedure: opening of session

The third session of the first parliament of our most high and dread sovereign, Charles, by the grace of God, king of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, held and begun at Edinburgh, 18 June 1663, by John [Leslie], earl of Rothes, lord Leslie of Bambreich, by virtue of the special commission under his majesty's great seal, with the advice and consent of the estates of parliament underwritten, there being also present the ordinary officers [Gilbert Hay], earl of Erroll, constable, [William Keith], earl Marischal, Sir Robert Murray [of Cameron], provost of Edinburgh, Mr William Wallace, sheriff, and Andrew Lothian, dempster.

  1. NAS. PA2/28, f.77. Back