1571, 28 August, Stirling, Parliament†

Parliamentary Register

Apud Striviling, [28 August 1571]

Procedure: opening of session

In parliamento excellentissimi ac potentissimi principis Jacobi eius nominis sexti Dei gratia Scotorum regis Illustrissimi, tento and inchoato apud Sterlingum in pretorio eiusdem die xxviij Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo ac anno regni eiusdem quinto, per charissimum suum avum quondam Matheum Comitem Lennox dominum Dernelie etc. et dicti supremi domini nostri regis regni ac legiorum regentem, presentibus tribus regni statibus. Finito et absoluto die septimo Septembris proxime sequenti per Joannen quondam Comiten Mar dominum Erskin etc. et dicti supremi domini nostri regis regni ac legiorum pro tempore regentem presentibus dictis tribus regni statibus. Que sequuntur acta et constitutiones concluse et sancite sunt ut leges postea observande.

  1. Discussed in J. Goodare, 'The Scottish parliamentary records, 1560-1603', Historical Research, 72 (1999), p.260. This parliament also appears to have enacted a long list of forfeitures, not recorded in the register. See CSP Scot., iii, pp.668-70; R. Bannatyne, Memorials of Transactions in Scotland, 1567-73, ed. R. Pitcairn (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1833), pp.185-6. Back
  2. The Actis of King James the Sext, printed by R. Lekprevick (St Andrews, 1573), f.2r. Bound with earlier parliamentary material at NLS, Black Acts, 1566-94, H.33.c.21, Scots Acts of Parliament, H.33.c.23 or Scots Acts, H.33.c.25. Back