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Sederunt

• †For the clergy
• • Bishops
  • [Patrick Hepburn, bishop of] Moray
  • [Adam Bothwell, bishop of] Orkney
• • Abbots
  • [Robert Pitcairn, commendator of] Dunfermline
  • [Robert Stewart, commendator of] Holyrood
  • [Michael Balfour, commendator of] Melrose
  • [Adam Erskine, commendator of] Cambuskenneth
  • [Mark Kerr, commendator of] Newbattle
  • [David Erskine, commendator of] Dryburgh
  • [John Maitland of Thirlestane, commendator of] Coldingham
  • [John Hay, commendator of] Balmerino
  • [Alexander Colville, commendator of] Culross
  • [Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, commendator of] Pittenweem
  • [Robert Richardson, commendator of] St Mary's Isle
  • [John Winram, commendator of] Portmoak

• For the barons
• • Earls
  • [James Douglas, earl of] Morton, chancellor
  • [John Erskine, earl of] Mar
  • [Alexander Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn
  • [William Graham, earl of] Menteith
• • Lords
  • [Alexander Home, lord] Home
  • [Patrick Lindsay, lord] Lindsay [of the Byres]
  • [Robert Sempill, lord] Sempill
  • [John Lyon, lord] Glamis
  • [John Stewart, lord] Innermeath
  • [Andrew Stewart, lord] Ochiltree
  • [William Borthwick, lord] Borthwick
  • [Alan Cathcart, lord] Cathcart
  • [James Sandilands, preceptor of Torphichen, lord] St John
• • Masters
  • [John Graham, master of] Montrose
  • [William Cunningham, master of] Glencairn
  • [James Sinclair, master of] Sinclair

• Officers
• [Robert Richardson, commendator of St Mary's Isle], treasurer
• [William Maitland of Lethington], secretary
• [Mr James MacGill of Nether Rankeilour], clerk register
• [Sir John Bellenden of Auchnoull], justice clerk
• [Robert Crichton of Eliock and John Spence of Condie], advocates

• For the burgh commissioners
• [Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar], provost of Edinburgh
• James Barron
• William Fleming for Perth
• David Lindsay [of the Mount] for Cupar
• James Mason for Montrose
• John Forehouse for Haddington
• Charles Drummond [of Kingsfield] for Linlithgow
• David Mar for Aberdeen
• William Maxwell for Glasgow†

1. NAS, PA2/11, p.55. Back
2. This is one of two similar sederunts from the same day. The other is at 1568/7/16. They are not, as claimed, identical, as there are fewer burgh commissioners in this one. J. Goodare, 'The Scottish parliamentary records, 1560-1603', Historical Research, 72 (1999), p.258. Back
3. NAS, PA2/11, p.56 is blank. Back