1579, 20 October, Edinburgh, Parliament

Parliamentary Register

[20 October 1579]

† Prima dies parliamenti

Procedure: opening of parliament

†Parliamentum excellentissimi principis Jacobi sexti Scotorum regis tentum et inchoatum, apud Edinburgh vigesimo die mensis Octobris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo nono per dominos commissarios specialiter constitutos viz. Colinum comitem Ergadie dominum Campbell et Lorne cancellarium Andream comitem Errolie constabularium Hugonem comitem Eglintoun dominum Montgomery Joannem comitem de Montroise dominum Grahame, reverendissimum reverendos ac venerabiles in christo patres Patricium archiepiscopum Sanctiandree Adamum episcopum Orchadene Alexandrum episcopum Brechynene Robertum commendatarium de Dumfermling secretarium Robertum commendatarium de Deir Alexandrum commendatarium de Culross, dilectos nostros magistros Davidem Borthuik de Lochhill et Robertum Creichtoun de Eliok advocatos Alexandrum clerk de Balbirny prepositum de Edinburgh unacum Jacobo Kynross deputato dicti constabularii Roberto Keyth de Canterland deputato maraschalli magistro Olyvero Colt deputato vicecomitis de Edinburgh et Andrea Lyndsay adjudicatore. Juratis et admissis sectis vocatis curia affirmata.

  1. This section of the parliamentary register, NAS, PA2/12, f.16r, is preceded by: 'Ex libris etc., Liber parliamenti'. This is followed by two blank folios, ff.16v and 17r-v. It is not clear to what the above folio relates and may simply be a test page for the scribe. Back
  2. NAS, PA2/12, f.18r. Back
  3. A slightly different version of this text can be found at NAS, PA2/12, appendix, f.3r. Patrick Adamson, archbishop of St Andrews is added to the margin of the appendix copy. Back