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Committee Members: lords of the articles

The lords elected to the articles

• For the clergy
• • Bishops
  • [Patrick Hepburn, bishop of] Moray
  • [Alexander Gordon, bishop of Galloway, at] Whithorn†
  • [Adam Bothwell, bishop of] Orkney
• • Abbots
  • [Robert Pitcairn, commendator of] Dunfermline
  • [Michael Balfour, commendator of] Melrose
  • [Mark Kerr, commendator of] Newbattle
  • [John Hay, commendator of] Balmerino
  • [James Stewart, commendator of] Inchcolm
  • [Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, commendator of] Pittenweem
  • [John Winram, commendator of] Portmoak

• For the barons
• • Earls
  • [George Gordon, earl of] Huntly
  • [Archibald Campbell, earl of] Argyll
  • [James Douglas, earl of] Morton
  • [John Stewart, earl of] Atholl
  • [Alexander Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn
  • [John Erskine, earl of] Mar
  • [George Sinclair, earl of] Caithness
• • Lords
  • [Alexander Home, lord] Home
  • [Patrick Lindsay, lord] Lindsay [of the Byres]
  • [Robert Sempill, lord] Sempill

• For the burgh commissioners:
• [Sir Simon Preston of that Ilk], provost of Edinburgh
• James Barron
• Patrick Murray [of Tibbermuir] for Perth
• Provost of Dundee
• Provost of Stirling
• Provost of Aberdeen
• Provost of Montrose
• Provost of St Andrews
• Provost of Ayr
• Provost of Cupar

[Clerk's endorsement]†

1. PRO, SP52/14, f.227. Back
2. Candida Casa or Whithorn was the seat of the bishop of Galloway. As he is listed under bishops, 'Candidecase' does not mean the prior of Whithorn. Back
3. Endorsed by James MacGill of Nether Rankeilour, clerk register, who extracted the sederunt and lords of the articles from the books of parliament. Back