Procedure: charge to the chancellor to enter in ward

[The king, with advice of his nobility, council and estates, ordains Captain James Stewart, late chancellor, to be commanded to enter in ward within the palace of Linlithgow, within six days after being charged, under pain of treason, and to remain there until he justifies the contents of his letter lately delivered by Stewart of Craigiehall to the king or, failing therein, receive the punishment due.]

  1. NAS, PC1/12, f.98v; RPCS, first series, iv, 169. Back