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Committee members: lords of the articles
The whole estates of parliament chose these persons underwritten to be lords of the articles:
- For the clergy
- [David Cunningham], bishop of Aberdeen
- [Alexander Campbell], bishop of Brechin
- Abbots
- [Edward Bruce, commendator of] Kinloss
- [Patrick Leslie, commendator of] Lindores
- [James Drummond, commendator of] Inchaffray
- [Alexander Colville, commendator of] Culross
- [Adam Erskine, commendator of] Cambuskenneth
- [John Bothwell, commendator of] Holyroodhouse
- For the nobility
- [John Hamilton, lord] Hamilton
- Earls
- [William Douglas, earl of] Morton
- [John Erskine, earl of] Mar
- Lords
- [John Forbes, lord] Forbes
- [Andrew Stewart, lord] Ochiltree
- [Henry Sinclair, lord] Sinclair
- [Alexander Home, lord] Home
- [Alexander Lindsay, lord] Spynie
- For the barons
- [Sir John Murray of] Tullibardine
- [Sir Duncan Campbell of] Glenorchy
- [Sir William Stewart of] Traquair
- [Sir George Home of] Wedderburn
- [Sir Patrick Vans of] Barnbarroch
- [Sir James Edmonstone of] Duntreath
- [Sir Walter Ogilvie of] Findlater
- [Sir Patrick Hepburn of] Waughton
- For the commissioners of burghs
- John Robertson }
- Edward Galbraith } for Edinburgh
- James Drummond for Perth
- Patrick Lyon for Dundee
- Anthony Bruce for Stirling
- Thomas Menzies of Durne for Aberdeen
- James Stewart for Glasgow
- [James Learmonth], laird of Dairsie for St Andrews
Together with the ordinary officers of state, Alexander [Seton], lord Urquhart, chosen in place of the chancellor, Sir Thomas Lyon of Auldbar, knight, treasurer to our sovereign lord, Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairnie, knight, treasurer depute, Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington, knight, secretary to our sovereign lord, David Seaton of Parbroath, his highness's comptroller, Sir John Cockburn of Ormiston, knight, justice clerk, and Master Robert Douglas, provost of Lincluden, his highness's collector.