27 June 1483†

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Procedure: preamble

The parliament of the most excellent prince and our lord, the lord James III, by the grace of God most illustrious king of Scots, held at Edinburgh and begun on 27 June 1483.

1. From this date, the acts of the lords auditors have their own preamble and sederunt, which differentiates them from the acts of the lords of council which are in the same volume. Back
2. NAS, PA2/4, f.7r. Back
3. NAS, PA2/4, f.7r. Back
4. Possibly Robert Blackadder, see N. Macdougall, James III: a Political Study (Edinburgh, 1982), pp.222-3. Back

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Committee members: lords auditors of causes and complaints

• Elected to the quarrels
• • For the prelates
  • [William Elphinstone], bishop of Ross
  • [George Carmichael], bishop-elect of Glasgow†
  • [Henry Abercrombie], abbot of Cambuskenneth

• For the barons
• [Robert Lyle], lord Lyle
• [John Drummond], lord of Stobhall
• [William Knollis], preceptor of Torphichen

• For the burgh commissioners
• Henry Cant
• Master Richard Lawson
• John Hepburn

1. From this date, the acts of the lords auditors have their own preamble and sederunt, which differentiates them from the acts of the lords of council which are in the same volume. Back
2. NAS, PA2/4, f.7r. Back
3. NAS, PA2/4, f.7r. Back
4. Possibly Robert Blackadder, see N. Macdougall, James III: a Political Study (Edinburgh, 1982), pp.222-3. Back