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Sederunt

The king present.

• For the clergy
• [Patrick Adamson, archbishop of] St Andrews
• [Robert Montgomery, archbishop of] Glasgow
• [Robert Crichton, bishop of] Dunkeld
• [David Cunningham, bishop of] Aberdeen
• [Alexander Campbell, bishop of] Brechin
• • Abbots
  • [Patrick Leslie of Pitcairlie, commendator of] Lindores
  • [Henry Kinnear, commendator of] Balmerino
  • [William Stewart, commendator of] Pittenweem
  • [Robert Keith, commendator of] Deer
  • [Walter Stewart, commendator of] Blantyre
  • [Gilbert Brown, abbot of] New Abbey†
  • [Laurence Gordon, commendator of] Glenluce
  • [John Johnston, commendator of] Soulseat
  • [Thomas Ross, commendator of] Fearn

• For the barons
• [James Stewart, earl of] Arran, chancellor
• [George Gordon, earl of] Huntly
• [David Lindsay, earl of] Crawford
• [John Graham, earl of] Montrose
• [Andrew Leslie, earl of] Rothes
• [John Maxwell, earl of] Morton
• [Alexander Gordon, earl of] Sutherland
• [George Sinclair, earl of] Caithness
• [James Stewart, earl of] Moray
• • Lords
  • [James Stewart, lord] Innermeath
  • [John Fleming, lord] Fleming
  • [William Livingston, lord] Livingston
  • [Patrick Drummond, lord] Drummond
  • [Alexander Abernethy, lord] Saltoun
  • [William Maxwell, lord] Herries
  • [Henry Sinclair, lord] Sinclair
  • [Andrew Stewart, lord] Ochiltree
  • [James Stewart, lord] Doune
  • [Hugh Somerville, lord] Somerville

• For the burgh commissioners
• †James Nicoll and William [Harvie] for Edinburgh
• Dionysius Conqueror for Perth
• William Duncan for Dund[ee]
• Alexander Rutherford [of Rubislaw] for Aberdeen
• Duncan Balfour for St And[rews]
• John Forest [of Magdalen] for Linlithgow
• George Elphinstone [of Blythswood] for Glasgow
• John Carkettle for Haddington
• Robert Cunningham for Dumfri[es]
• John Graham of Callander for Auchter[arder]
• William Spalding for F[orfar]†
• Andrew Lauder for La[uder]
• Patrick Dickson for [Peebles]
• William Annan for [Crail]†
• James Mason for Mo[ntrose]

1. NAS, PA2/13, f.3r. Back
2. Also known as Sweetheart Abbey. Back
3. Gaps due to damage to manuscript at bottom right of page. Back
4. ? Possibly the same William Spalding who was a councillor of Forfar in 1591. See Young, The Parliaments of Scotland, ii, 652. Back
5. ? Possibly the same William Annan who was a burgess of Crail, which he represented at several conventions of burghs between 1575 and 1582. See Young, The Parliaments of Scotland, i, 20. Back