1621, 25 January, Edinburgh, Convention†

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25 January 1621

[A1621/1/1]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]

Sederunt

• Sederunt
• [Alexander Seton, earl of Dunfermline], chancellor
• [John Erskine, earl of Mar], treasurer
• [John Spottiswood, arch]bishop of St Andrews
• [James Law, arch]bishop of Glasgow
• [William Douglas, earl of] Angus
• [John Leslie, earl of] Rothes
• [William Douglas, earl of] Morton
• [William Graham, earl of] Menteith
• [Alexander Montgomery, earl of] Eglinton
• [James Erskine, earl of] Buchan
• [Robert Maxwell, earl of] Nithsdale
• [George Seton, earl of] Winton
• [John Lyon, earl of] Kinghorn
• [James Hamilton, earl of] Abercorn
• [William Murray, earl of] Tullibardine
• [Robert Ker, earl of] Roxburghe
• [Walter Scott, earl of] Buccleuch
• [Thomas Hamilton, earl of] Melrose
• [John Maitland, viscount of] Lauderdale
• [Patrick Forbes], bishop of Aberdeen
• [Patrick Lindsay], bishop of Ross
• [John Erskine], lord Erskine
• [Arthur Forbes, lord] Forbes
• [Alan Cathcart, lord] Cathcart
• [John Hay, lord Hay of] Yester
• [Hugh Sempill, lord] Sempill
• [James Ogilvy, lord] Ogilvy
• [James Ross, lord] Ross
• [James Sandilands, lord] Torphichen
• [Alexander Lindsay, lord] Spynie
• [John Elphinstone, lord] Balmerino
• [James Colville, lord] Colville [of Culross]
• [David Murray, lord] Scone
• [Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of] Burleigh
• [James Elphinstone, lord] Coupar
• [John Bothwell, lord] Holyroodhouse
• [Colin MacKenzie, lord] Kintail
• [William Cranston, lord] Cranston
• [David Carnegie, lord] Carnegie [of Kinnaird]
• [George Ramsay, lord] Ramsay [of Dalhousie]
• [Alexander Elphinstone], master of Elphinstone
• [Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington], privy seal
• [Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank], treasurer depute
• [Sir George Hay of Kinfauns], clerk register
• [Sir John Cockburn of Ormiston], justice clerk
• [Sir William Oliphant of Newton], advocate
• [Sir William Livingstone of] Kilsyth
• [Sir Robert Melville of] Burntisland
• [Sir Archibald Napier of] Merchiston
• [Sir Andrew Hamilton of] Redhouse
• [Sir John Skene of] Curriehill
• [Sir Alexander Hay of] Fosterseat
• Sir Andrew Kerr
• Sir Peter Young
• Master Peter Rollock

1. This is likely to be a meeting of an augmented privy council rather than strictly a convention of estates. Back
2. NAS, PC1/30, f.3r. Back