Procedure: preamble

The parliament of the most excellent prince and lord, our lord James V, by the grace of God most illustrious king of Scots, held at Edinburgh on 22 January 1528 [1529] by the lords commissioners written below, namely Patrick [Hepburn], earl of Bothwell, John [Erskine], lord Erskine, the venerable father in Christ Robert [Cairncross], abbot of Holyrood, Sir William Scott of Balwearie, Master Adam Otterburn of Auldhame [and Reidhall] and Nicholas Crawford of Oxgangs, justice clerk, by special commission of our supreme lord the king. On the which day the suits were called and the court fenced.

  1. NAS, PA2/8, I, f.75v. Back