Charles I: Translation
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1625, 27 October, Edinburgh, Convention
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Additional Source
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At Edinburgh, 27 October 1625
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At Edinburgh, 1 November 1625
- Sederunt
- Letter: king's letter to the estates
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Legislation
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Procedure: articles proposed by the king; king's letters to the estates
- Articles to be by [Sir George Hay of Kinfauns], our chancellor, proposed to the convention
- Regarding victual
- Regarding granaries
- Regarding shipping
- Regarding the custom of coal
- Regarding the drapery of wool
- Regarding the procuring of offices by bribery
- Regarding convocations at parliaments and council
- Regarding the repairing of the lords of session to the session house
- Regarding compearance before the council
- Regarding compearance before the session
- Regarding soliciting of the lords of session
- Regarding merchants
- Regarding the children of noblemen remaining beyond sea
- Regarding wappenschaws
- Regarding the coin
- Regarding the poor
- Procedure
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Legislation
- Procedure
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At Edinburgh, 2 November 1625
- Sederunt
- Legislation
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Proclamation
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Procedure: remits, recommendations and enactments
- Regarding the victual and granaries
- Regarding the shipping
- Regarding the custom of coal
- Regarding the drapery of wool
- Regarding the procuring of offices by bribery
- Regarding the repairing to parliament, conventions and council
- Regarding the importing of unnecessary wares and exporting of money
- An act against rebels
- An act regarding weights and measures
- Regarding the repairing of the lords of session to the session house
- Regarding compearance before the session
- Regarding soliciting of the lords of session
- Regarding the poor
- Regarding the merchant estate
- Regarding the coin
- Regarding the intended alteration in the session
- Regarding baronets
- Regarding penal statutes
- Regarding annualrents
- Regarding messengers of arms
- Regarding the tanners
- Regarding the bridges of Musselburgh and Linton
- Procedure
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Letter: privy council to the king
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Procedure: admonishment
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1628, 15 September, Edinburgh, Parliament (continued)
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1629, 15 April, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1629, 5 September, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1630, 1 June, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1630, 28 July, Holyroodhouse, Convention
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Additional Source
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At Holyroodhouse, 28 July 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 29 July 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 30 July 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 31 July 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 2 August 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 3 August 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 4 August 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 7 August 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 3 November 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 8 November 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 10 November 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 11 November 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 12 November 1630
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At Holyroodhouse, 31 March 1631
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At Holyroodhouse, 20 April 1631
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At Holyroodhouse, 21 April 1631
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At Holyroodhouse, 26 July 1631
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At Holyroodhouse, 28 July 1631
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At Perth, 22 September 1631
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At Perth, 23 September 1631
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At Holyroodhouse, 7 September 1632
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1630, 3 August, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1631, 1 April, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1631, 4 August, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1632, 13 April, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1633, 18 June, Edinburgh, Parliament
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Parliamentary Register
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18 June 1633
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19 June 1633
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20 June 1633
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28 June 1633
- Sederunt
- Procedure
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Legislation
- Regarding the taxation granted to his majesty of 30s termly upon the pound land and the sixteenth penny of all annualrents
- Regarding the collecting and bringing in of the taxation and relief to prelates
- Regarding his majesty's royal prerogative and apparel of kirkmen
- Ratification of the acts touching religion
- Ratification of the act of council regarding plantation of schools
- Against the inverting of pious donations
- Regarding invading of ministers
- Ratification of the act of commission regarding the ministers' provisions
- The king's general revocation
- Regarding annexation of his majesty's property
- Of dissolution
- Ratification of the acts of interruption
- Regarding regalities of erections
- Regarding superiorities of kirklands
- Regarding his majesty's annuity of teinds
- Regarding vassals holding ward
- Regarding the rate and price of teinds
- Regarding the exchequer
- Commission for valuation of teinds not valued, rectifying of the valuations of the same already made and other particulars therein contained
- Regarding the king's designation of the names to be inserted in the commissions regarding the tithes and laws
- Regarding annualrent of eight to be taken off each hundred in time to come, only suspending the same for three years, and in the interim two of ten to be paid for the said space to his majesty
- Regarding the lords of sessions' taxation of 10s to be imposed upon every pound land of old extent
- Ratification of the liberties of the college of justice
- Ratification of the privileges of the free royal burghs
- Ratification of the acts made in favour of the justices of peace and their constables and commission to the lords of secret council relating thereto
- Explanation of the acts of parliament made in favour of the lords of session regarding 12 pennies of the pound to be paid in decreets to be given by the said lords hereafter
- Regarding pardon of penal statutes
- Ratification in favour of [William Alexander], viscount of Stirling of the infeftments and signature granted to him of the dominions of New Scotland and Canada in America and privileges contained therein, and of the dignity and order of knight baronets and act of convention of estates made relating thereto
- In favour of [William Douglas], earl of Morton and [Robert Douglas], lord Dalkeith, his son, regarding Loch Leven and preservation of the fishings thereof
- Regarding the Clangregor
- In favour of his majesty and lieges entitled 'Salvo jure cujuslibet'
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Procedure: commissions
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Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Procedure: commissions
- Commission regarding [John Sandilands], lord Torphichen
- Commission regarding [Alexander Lindsay], lord Spynie
- Commission regarding the exchange of monies
- Commission regarding the criminal judicatory
- Commission regarding the disjoining of Meikle and Little Daltons etc.
- Commission regarding Robert Young, printer etc.
- Commission regarding the ministers' stipends of Edinburgh etc.
- Commission regarding the kirks of Nisbet and Crailing
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Legislation: private acts
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private act
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of [James Erskine], earl of Buchan
- Act in favour of [James Erskine], earl of Buchan
- Act in favour of [Alexander Stewart], earl of Galloway
- Act in favour of Alexander [Stewart], lord Garlies
- Act in favour of [John Murray], earl of Annandale
- Act in favour of [John Murray], earl of Annandale
- Act in favour of [Patrick Lindsay], archbishop of Glasgow
- Act in favour of [John Maxwell], bishop of Ross
- Act in favour of [Andrew Lamb], bishop of Galloway
- Act in favour of [Adam Bellenden], bishop of Dunblane
- Act in favour of the University of St Andrews
- Act in favour of the King's College of Aberdeen
- Act in favour of the college of Glasgow
- Act in favour of [Archibald Campbell], lord Lorne
- Act in favour of [Archibald Campbell], lord Lorne
- Act in favour of [Archibald Campbell], lord Lorne
- Act in favour of [Archibald Campbell], lord Lorne
- Act in favour of [John Hay], lord Yester
- Act in favour of [John Campbell], lord Loudoun
- Act in favour of [John Campbell], lord Loudoun
- Act in favour of [Archibald Napier], lord Napier
- Act in favour of [John Lindsay], lord Lindsay
- Act in favour of the burgh of Aberdeen
- Act in favour of the burgh of Glasgow
- Act in favour of the burgh of Culross
- Act in favour of the burgh of Haddington
- Act in favour of the burgh of Burntisland
- Act in favour of the burgh of Banff
- Act in favour of the burgh of Pittenweem
- Act in favour of the burgh of Selkirk
- Act in favour of the burgh of Ayr
- Act in favour of the burgh of Inverness
- Act in favour of the burgh of Crail
- Act in favour of the burgh of Kinghorn
- Act in favour of the burgh of Dumbarton
- Act in favour of the burgh of New Galloway
- Act in favour of the burgh of Lauder
- Act in favour of Sir Robert Douglas of Spott
- Act in favour of Sir William Anstruther
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight baronet
- Act in favour of Sir James Lockhart, younger, of Lee
- Act in favour of the said Sir James Lockhart [of Castlehill]
- Act in favour of Sir Patrick Murray of Elibank, knight
- Act in favour of Sir John Dalmahoy of that Ilk, knight
- Act in favour of [Sir Colin Campbell], laird of Glenorchy
- Act in favour of Doctor [David] Beaton and his spouse
- Act in favour of Henry Nisbet
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private act
- Procedure: protests; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of Sir James MacGill of Cranstoun-Riddel, knight baronet
- Act in favour of Sir Thomas Thomson of Duddingston, knight
- Act in favour of [Master Alexander Swinton], laird of Swinton
- Act in favour of Master Walter Whitford
- Act in favour of Master Walter Whitford
- Act in favour of [Alexander Fraser], laird of Philorth, younger
- Act in favour of [Alexander Cunningham], laird of Corsehill
- Act in favour of Master James Bannatyne of Newhall
- Act in favour of Master Andrew Aytoun of Logie, advocate
- Act in favour of Sir James Hamilton of Priestfield
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of John Campbell, fiar of Cawdor
- Act in favour of Sir John Spottiswood of Dairsie
- Act in favour of [Alexander Forbes], laird of Pitsligo
- Act in favour of [David Lindsay], laird of Edzell
- Act in favour of [James Sydserf], laird of Ruchlaw
- Act in favour of John Sinclair of Stevenson
- Act in favour of Thomas Crombie of Kemnay
- Act in favour of Sir Patrick MacKie of Larg, knight
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of the ministers of Portpatrick
- Act in favour of Sir Arthur Douglas of Whittingehame
- Act in favour of Master William Drummond [of Hawthornden]
- Act in favour of the skinners of Edinburgh
- Act in favour of Master James Nicolson of Cockburnspath
- Act in favour of the feuars of Inveresk
- Act in favour of James Scott of Galashiels
- Act in favour of [John Brisbane], laird of Bishopton
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of Master William Cunningham of Brownhill
- Act in favour of Master James Raith of Edmonstone
- Act in favour of [Edward Maxwell], laird of Tinwald
- Act in favour of John Erskine of Balhalgardy
- Act in favour of [Lauchlan MacLauchlan], laird of MacLauchlan
- Act in favour of the kirk of Pittenweem
- Act in favour of the kirk of Eyemouth
- Act in favour of the minister of Coldingham
- Act in favour of the minister of Burntisland
- Act of dissolution of Lugton and Melville from the parish of St Andrews, and union thereof to Dalkeith and Lasswade
- Act regarding the parsonage of Dalkeith and payment of the taxation thereof
- Act in favour of Sir Richard Murray of Cockpool
- Act in favour of the minister of Cockburnspath
- Act in favour of Sir John Charteris of Amisfield
- Act in favour of Sir Patrick Hamilton of Little Preston
- Act in favour of [Andrew Murray], laird of Balvaird
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Act in favour of John Hamilton of Boghall and his spouse
- Act in favour of William Lockhart of Carstairs
- Act in favour of Master Robert Gordon of Straloch
- Act disuniting the kirks of Abdie and Newburgh
- Act regarding the parish kirk of Strichen
- Act in favour of Sir George Hamilton
- Act uniting certain lands to the kirks of Corstorphine and Hailes
- Act in favour of James Hay of Smithfield
- Act in favour of Sir James Balfour [of Kinnaird]
- Act in favour of Alexander Cunningham of Barns
- Act in favour of [Alexander Elphinstone], master of Elphinstone
- Act in favour of Master Alexander Keith of Benholm
- Act dissolving four prebendaries from the parish kirk of Corstorphine to the college kirk thereof
- Act in favour of Sir John Auchmuty of Gosford
- Act in favour of Sir George Ogilvie of Banff
- Procedure: protests; asking of instruments
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Legislation: private acts
- Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
- Procedure: remission
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1639, 15 May, Edinburgh, Parliament (continued)
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1639, 23 July, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1639, 26 August, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1639, 30 August, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1639, 31 August, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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Parliamentary Register
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Committee Minutes and Proceedings: lords of the articles
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4 September 1639
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5 September 1639
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6 September 1639
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7 September 1639
- [Act delivered to king's advocate; supplication remitted to king; act to be further considered]
- [Supplication remitted to justices of peace and kirk sessions; supplication continued]
- [Supplication regarding idle beggars remitted to subcommittee; supplication read and answer delayed]
- [Answer to protestation and decision regarding addition to the articles delayed]
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9 September 1639
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10 September 1639
- [Depute clerk register appointed; protests against; consideration of salmon fishing upon Sunday continued]
- [Supplication partly approved; consideration of further particulars remitted to the burghs]
- [Supplications remitted to king as business proper to the general assembly]
- [Supplication continued; Yule vacation for court of session abolished]
- [Acts of parliament against drunkenness revived; former acts made against blasphemy ordered to be revised]
- [Answer regarding fees payable to kirk officers continued; market days in Edinburgh and Glasgow etc.]
- [Overtures submitted for salmon fishing on Sunday; supplication regarding ministers' stipends continued]
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11 September 1639
- [The Large Declaration debated and supplication against recommended to the lord commissioner]
- [Acts read and approved; subcommittee for idle beggars to present overtures the following day]
- [Supplication remitted to commission for plantation of kirks; supplication approved; acts against papists and Jesuits ordered to be revised]
- [Act approved; market days amended; supplication remitted to the king as business proper to the general assembly]
- [Supplication remitted to the lords of session; supplication remitted to commission for plantation of kirks]
- [Act ratified and related supplication recommended to the king; act approved]
- [Act remitted to commission for plantation of kirks; supplication in favour of the director of the chancellery remitted to subcommittee; supplication remitted to the king as business proper to the general assembly]
- [Article and act remitted to commission for plantation of kirks; acts approved]
- [Supplication remitted to the king as business proper to the general assembly; supplication ordered to be further expanded]
- [Supplications remitted to the commission for plantation of kirks; act regarding linen cloth approved; act regarding freemen of burghs to be further considered]
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12 September 1639
- [Act regarding salmon fishing and penalties for contravention approved]
- [Act regarding the herring amended and approved; protest against; consideration of acts continued]
- [Patents debated and ordered to be produced; article for rouping of the common good approved]
- [Act for selling of yarn by weight ordered to be brought in; article regarding breadth of plaid approved]
- [Supplication remitted to commission for plantation of kirks; ratification approved]
- [Act submitted regarding the constitution of parliament]
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13 September 1639
- [Supplication remitted to the king as business proper to the general assembly; supplication continued until the afternoon]
- [Supplication recommended to the king; article regarding sentences given against ministers approved]
- [Articles for provision of schools, glebes and manses remitted to commission for plantation of kirks; article regarding salmon fishing continued]
- [Article refused; subcommittee for idle beggars to present overtures in the afternoon]
- [Article remitted to the king as business proper to the general assembly; ratification of the acts of the general assembly and covenant approved; act amended and approved]
- [Overtures for justices of peace and idle beggars; commission for manufactories approved]
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14 September 1639
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16 September 1639
- [Supplication recommended to the king; supplication approved and exception from act granted]
- [Article regarding the coining of copper money; supplication read and party cited; advocates admitted to plead for parties]
- [Business regarding patent for tanning of leather continued; supplications and bills continued]
- [Parties and their advocates heard; business found within the remit of parliament; protest against]
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17 September 1639
- [Supplication read and James Gordon cited before the justice; acts regarding the constitution of parliament ordered to be drawn up separately; reservation subjoined to article ratifying the covenant deleted]
- [Supplication recommended to the king; act submitted by advocate remitted to certain members; ratification approved]
- [Supplications regarding the disorders in the north remitted to subcommittee; article for augmentation of customs and tobacco patent to be further considered]
- [Supplications regarding tanning of leather remitted to subcommittee; article regarding patent of the armoury continued]
- [Act against unlawful killing of wildfowl and hares; patent of pearling discharged]
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18 September 1639
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19 September 1639
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20 September 1639
- [Supplications remitted to the privy council; consideration of supplication delayed]
- [Supplication debated; instruments taken]
- [Protest against members present in the business between the Marquis of Huntly and the noblemen and gentlemen of the north; member removed]
- [Debate regarding the business between the Marquis of Huntly and the noblemen and gentlemen of the north; supplications continued until act drawn up]
- [Business remitted to certain members and party cited]
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21 September 1639
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23 September 1639
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24 September 1639
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25 September 1639
- [Draft acts to be brought in; supplication remitted to the burghs; supplication remitted to the king]
- [Subcommittee appointed for the book of rates; act regarding small vassals amended and renewed]
- [Act approved; article recommended to the king]
- [Supplication continued; two drafts of the same act ordered to be shown to some judges and lawyers; act approved]
- [Restitution of goods to the Laird of Craigie Wallace; supplication and article continued]
- [Business regarding patent for tanning of leather remitted to commission for manufactories; article against monopolies continued]
- [Acts ordered to be drawn up]
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26 September 1639
- [Consideration of act continued; act regarding the patent of armoury approved]
- [Supplication and patent given out for further consultation]
- [Supplication remitted to the judge ordinary; additional act regarding the constitution of parliament presented; protest against]
- [Commissions approved; patent for the pearl discharged; act approved; noble membership of commission for manufactories to be decided]
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27 September 1639
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28 September 1639
- [Business regarding the book of rates; subcommittee appointed for the visitation of the University of St Andrews; overtures submitted against the act for small vassals]
- [Commission granted for restitution of goods taken unlawfully since the pacification; act delivered to the king's advocate for further consideration]
- [Act to be recommended to the king; acts ordered to be seen by the burghs; acts continued; act approved]
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30 September 1639
- [Act amended; acts to be taken into further consideration]
- [Acts refused; acts approved]
- [Act to be taken into further consideration; act remitted to the judge ordinary]
- [Act read; supplication remitted to the committee for the disorders in the north]
- [Overtures against changing the time of session to be submitted; act regarding poinding for taxation approved]
- [Act regarding the places of commissioners of shires approved; register of comprisings ordered to be kept; patent of tobacco discharged]
- [Former acts against leasing-makers to be revived; act discharging commissions of justiciary and lieutenancy recommended to the king]
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1 October 1639
- [Supplications recommended to the king; vassals of bishops; supplication approved]
- [Supplications remitted to commission for plantation of kirks; acts approved; act to be taken into further consideration]
- [Acts remitted to the subcommittee for the book of rates; acts remitted to the lords of session]
- [Acts for planting of woods and unlawful killing of wildfowl etc.; acts approved; business remitted to the lords of session]
- [Infeftments of small vassals; act amended and approved; acts to be taken into further considerations; acts refused]
- [Act ordered to be revived; acts to be taken into further consideration]
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2 October 1639
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3 October 1639
- [Commission for surrenders, teinds and plantation of kirks revived; membership remitted to the king; supplication for registration of sasines approved]
- [Supplication and act remitted to the lords of session; act ordered to be amended; executions made by deprived messengers]
- [Commission of justiciary to be taken into further consideration; act remitted to the privy council; act refused]
- [Acts to be taken into further consideration; act regarding the keepers of castles refused; supplication ordered to be drawn up]
- [Supplication recommended to the king; supplication to be taken into further consideration]
- [Supplications remitted to certain members; supplication remitted to the lord commissioner]
- [Subcommittee for the act of pacification appointed; act regarding leasing-makers revived]
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4 October 1639
- [Act of pacification to be taken into further consideration; protection granted; acts remitted to the burghs]
- [Act remitted to the committee for the disorders in the north; ratification continued]
- [Ratification approved; supplication and act to be taken into further consideration]
- [Act regarding payment of feu duties by the king's vassals to be drawn up; act amended and approved; supplication read]
- [Supplication against the importation of foreign made work partly approved; act to be taken into further consideration; supplication refused]
- [Acts and ratification approved; acts and ratification to be taken into further consideration]
- [Ratification remitted to the town council of Edinburgh; ratifications approved]
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5 October 1639
- [Ratifications approved; protest against]
- [Supplication continued; decreet arbitral between the Earl of Buccleuch and Francis Stewart ratified; act approved]
- [Act remitted to the noblemen; commission of justiciary continued; act approved]
- [Act continued; act refused; ratifications approved; supplication and ratification to be taken into further consideration]
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7 October 1639
- [Supplications remitted to the privy council; supplications and ratification to be taken into further consideration; act partly approved]
- [Act to be taken into further consideration; commission for trying the privileges of the justiciary approved; protests against; act continued]
- [Subcommittee for the disorders in the north ordered to meet; supplications to be taken into further consideration; supplications read and approved]
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8 October 1639
- [Supplication remitted to the commissioner for Dumfries; supplication recommended to the king]
- [Supplication to be taken into further consideration; subcommittee for the act of pacification ordered to attend the lord commissioner]
- [Supplication refused; commission of justiciary approved]
- [Business regarding the broken men and settling the peace of the country debated; various draft acts regarding the same to be taken into further consideration]
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9 October 1639
- [Overture against the theft of silver work to be further considered; article for powder works remitted to certain members]
- [Exemptions from act regarding salmon fishing granted; supplication continued]
- [Supplication remitted to commission for manufactories; supplication refused; complaint by the Earl of Argyll against Sir Donald Gorme continued]
- [Ratification and act to be further considered]
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10 October 1639
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11 October 1639
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12 October 1639
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14 October 1639
- [Overtures from the commissioners of the kirk presented; supplication refused; supplication remitted to the privy council; pursuit against James Gordon]
- [Supplication remitted to the lord commissioner; commission for surveying the laws approved; supplication remitted to commission for surrenders, teinds and plantation of kirks]
- [Supplication approved; act remitted to the privy council, lords of session and justice general]
- [Act continued and remitted to certain members; act regarding the apparel to be drawn up; act continued]
- [Ratifications approved; committee for the disorders in the north ordered to meet; act against privy writings from the king to the lords of session to be revived]
- [Acts for the court of session read and refused; act regarding the diets of the session to be drawn up]
- [Acts read and refused; act approved; ratification ordered to be extended; supplication remitted to the exchequer]
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15 October 1639
- [Ratifications approved; committee for the disorders in the north ordered to meet; Sir William Stewart's carriage at the taking of the castle of Dumbarton]
- [Act and ratification approved; act refused; supplications to be shown to the noblemen named]
- [Supplication remitted to the privy council; subcommittee for the broken men and peace of the country to be appointed; ratifications approved]
- [Ratification approved; ratification to be further considered; act of pacification debated and certain noble members ordered to attend the lord commissioner]
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16 October 1639
- [Act approved; acts to be taken into further consideration]
- [Ratifications approved; ratification remitted to certain members; additions to commission for plantation of kirks to be submitted to the lord commissioner]
- [Act against hearers of mass continued; supplication regarding the act of pacification read]
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17 October 1639
- [Supplication continued; commissioner for Dumfries cited to answer to supplication; act refused]
- [Exceptions against act to be brought in; act approved; commission for plantation of kirks delivered to the lord commissioner]
- [Overture for the disorders in the north to be brought in; supplication read and continued]
- [Ratification approved; business regarding the disorders in the north debated]
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18 October 1639
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19 October 1639
- [Ratification approved; right of voting of commissioners of shires debated; accounts of Thomas Muir to be shown to William Dick]
- [Act regarding apothecaries remitted to Doctor Arnott; ratification approved; acts regarding the privileges of merchants and craftsmen continued; Earl of Mar cited to answer supplication]
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21 October 1639
- [Commissions for salmon fishing approved; writs submitted by the merchants and craftsmen; act regarding silver and gold work to be drawn]
- [Protest against act; protection granted; act continued]
- [Petition recommended to the king; act approved; process of Agnes Johnston against Mr Alexander Johnston debated; act read and noblemen cited to attend the articles]
- [Supplication remitted to the king's advocate; disposition and back-bond cancelled; act approved]
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22 October 1639
- [Supplication approved; acts read and approved; supplication to be taken into further consideration]
- [Supplication for a college of physicians in Edinburgh remitted to certain members; commission contained in the act of pacification debated and approved]
- [Ratifications approved; supplications to be taken into further consideration]
- [Act regarding the apparel refused; acts continued]
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23 October 1639
- [Inveraray erected into a royal burgh; supplication remitted to the judge ordinary; act approved]
- [Supplication continued until ratification be presented; ratification to be taken into further consideration; act remitted to the lords of session; protest against]
- [Subcommittee for the visitation of the University of St Andrews ordered to meet; act regarding the heirs of creditors debated and refused]
- [Complaint read and diet for continuing process to be chosen; act remitted to the lord commissioner; acts regarding the coin continued until the afternoon]
- [Supplication approved; act read and refused; act read and delayed]
- [Representation to the lord commissioner regarding the long continuance of parliament; act read and refused; former act amended and revived]
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24 October 1639
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Additional Source
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1640, 2 June, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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Parliamentary Register
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At Edinburgh, 2 June 1640
- Procedure: opening of the session
- Sederunt
- Procedure: election of Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of Burleigh as president of the parliament
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Procedure: nomination of Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of Burleigh to be president of the parliament
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Legislation
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Declaration
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Committee Members: committee for revising the papers debated in the articles in 1639
- Procedure: summons against the governor and soldiers of Edinburgh Castle
- Procedure: continuation
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3 June 1640
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4 June 1640
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5 June 1640
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Warrant
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Declaration
- Procedure: Lady Loudoun's response to the above declaration
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Legislation
- Act discharging the Yule vacation, appointing the session to sit down 1 November and rise 28 February, and to sit down 1 June and rise 31 July
- Act discharging the granting of protections by the lords of council and exchequer
- Act against papists
- Act ratifying the act of the lords of session made for supplying of the absence of the signet and discharging the transporting thereof or any other seal in time coming
- Act discharging salmon fishing on Sunday
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6 June 1640
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Legislation
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Procedure: explanation and declaration concerning bonds and conventions
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Legislation
- Act discharging the going of salt-pans and mills upon the Sabbath day
- Act appointing all grievances to be given in in plain parliament
- Annulling all unlawful and unjust proclamations made under the pain of treason against the disobeyers
- Act regarding the ratification of the covenant and of the assembly's supplication, act of council and act of assembly concerning the covenant
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Procedure: supplication of the general assembly
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Procedure: answer to the supplication and act of privy council
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Declaration: renewal of the Confession of Faith
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Legislation
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8 June 1640
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9 June 1640
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Legislation: private acts
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Legislation
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Legislation: private acts
- Ratification in favour of Colonel Alexander Hamilton of his commission to be general of the artillery
- Ratification in favour of Colonel [William] Baillie of his commission to be general major
- Ratification in favour of Master Alexander Gibson of Durie of his commission to be commissary-general
- Ratification in favour of Colonel Munro of his commission to be general major
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Legislation
- Act against leasing makers of whatsoever quality, office, place or dignity they be of
- Act for directing letters of horning and caption by the lords of session against the excommunicated prelates and all other excommunicated persons
- Regarding the ward and marriage of those who shall happen to be killed in the defence of the religion and liberties of kirk and kingdom
- In favour of those who held their lands of archbishops, bishops or of their chapters
- Regarding the keepers of the castles of Edinburgh, Stirling and Dumbarton
- Act against the keepers of the castles of Dumbarton and Threave
- Act discharging all custom of ammunition brought home to the lieges for their own use for defence of religion and liberties of kirk and kingdom
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Warrant: to the clerks of the parliament
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Judicial proceeding: issuing of summons of treason
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Procedure: remit in favour of James Arnott
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10 June 1640
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Legislation
- Ordaining the whole subjects and lieges of this kingdom to obey, maintain and defend the conclusions, acts and constitutions of this present session of parliament, and to subscribe the bond appointed for that effect
- In favour of the king's vassals of ward lands, recommending their prejudice by the act of 1633 to the consideration of the next parliament and in the meantime until then suspending the force and execution of that act
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11 June 1640
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Judicial proceeding: regarding the forfeiture of Patrick Ruthven, lord Ettrick
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Procedure: recommendation to the committee of estates
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Procedure: remit to the committee of estates
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Warrant: regarding the cockets of St Andrews
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Procedure: remits to the committee of estates
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Procedure: protest; instruments taken
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Legislation
- Act for planting of kirks unprovided with ministers through the patrons' default
- Discharging all proxies to be admitted in parliament and that no foreign nobleman shall have place and voice in parliament unless they have 10,000 merks of land rent within the kingdom
- For suppressing the distinction of spiritual and temporal lords of session
- Act for taking order with the abuses committed on Sundays by the confluence of people for hiring of shearers on Sundays
- Act discharging the Monday market in Edinburgh, Jedburgh, Dumfries, Brechin and Glasgow
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Legislation: private act
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Legislation
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Procedure: protest
- Procedure: preamble
- Procedure: approval of the acts
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Procedure: continuation of parliament
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Declaration: closure of parliament
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Additional Source
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1640, 19 November, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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1641, 14 January, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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Parliamentary Register
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Parliamentary Minutes
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1641, 13 April, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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Parliamentary Register
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Parliamentary Minutes
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Additional Source
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1641, 25 May, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
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Parliamentary Register
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Parliamentary Minutes
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Additional Source
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1641, 15 July, Edinburgh, Parliament
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Parliamentary Register
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At Edinburgh, 15 July 1641
- Procedure: opening of session
- Sederunt
- Procedure: election of Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of Burleigh as president of the parliament
- Letter: king's letter to parliament
- Declaration: king's intentions regarding the kirk and kingdom
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Declaration: king's intentions regarding civil government
- Procedure: parliament's refusal to prorogate
- Procedure: asking of instruments
- Procedure: the Earl of Glencairn's supplication for precedency
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Declaration: concerning the Earl of Glencairn's precedency
- Procedure: motion by the Earl of Argyll
- Procedure: indictment against the Earl of Traquair
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16 July 1641
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Committee Members: committee for ordering the house of parliament
- Procedure: supplications
- Procedure: decision on parliamentary business
- Procedure: commission to advise upon the answer to his majesty's letter
- Procedure: decision regarding the Earl of Traquair's submission
- Procedure: overture by the Earl of Dunfermline and Lord Loudoun
- Procedure: refusal of the estates to accept the Earl of Traquair's submission
- Procedure: summons and proceedings against the incendiaries
- Procedure: reproduction of supplications
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17 July 1641
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19 July 1641 after noon
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20 July 1641
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21 July 1641
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22 July 1641
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23 July 1641
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24 July 1641
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27 July 1641
- Procedure
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Warrant: for concluding and subscribing the treaty
- Procedure: decision that there be only one parliamentary session per day
- Procedure: decision to hear the Earl of Montrose and others that afternoon
- Petition: by the Lord Fraser
- Procedure
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Procedure: refusal to remit the sentence of Master John Stewart
- Procedure: the Earl of Montrose heard and commanded to return to the castle
- Procedure: the Lord Napier heard and commanded to return to the castle
- Warrant: Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall be committed to the castle
- Procedure: the Laird of Keir heard
- Procedure: appointment of the time of parliamentary meetings
- Procedure: dispensation to the justice
- Procedure: supplication by the Earl of Buccleuch
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28 July 1641
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29 July 1641
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30 July 1641
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3 August 1641
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4 August 1641
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5 August 1641
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6 August 1641
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9 August 1641
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10 August 1641
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11 August 1641
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12 August 1641
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13 August 1641
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14 August 1641
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Additional Source
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Undated: 1641, 1 July x 31 July
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15 July 1641
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17 July 1641
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19 July 1641
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20 July 1641
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21 July 1641
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24 July 1641
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28 July 1641
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30 July 1641
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3 August 1641
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5 August 1641
- [Particulars to be represented to parliament regarding the gathering of monies]
- [Supplication of Lady Stormont regarding the meeting of the court of exchequer]
- [Supplication of John Blair of that Ilk for the passing of his gift through the exchequer]
- [Supplication of Robert Muir of Caldwell for the passing of his signature through the exchequer]
- [Supplication of Ludovic Chisholm of Cromlix for the passing of his gift through the exchequer]
- [Supplication of the town of Edinburgh regarding their jurisdiction in the trial of Mr Thomas Lamb]
- [Supplication of the lord constable regarding his jurisdiction in the trial of Mr Thomas Lamb]
- [Remonstrance of the lord constable to the parliament regarding the jurisdiction and privileges of his office]
- [Supplication of the synod of Galloway for trial of Thomas MacKie and commission to the Earl of Galloway]
- [Supplication of Sir James Baillie of Lochend]
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6 August 1641
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9 August 1641
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10 August 1641
- [Supplication of Captain John Forbes for maintenance during his imprisonment]
- [Supplication of Elspeth Ross and Hugh Ross of Tollie against any remission to be granted to those accused of the murder of Donald Roy]
- [Acknowledgement and declaration by George Aitken of Underedge]
- [Letter from the commissioners at London to the parliament regarding the king's arrival and the payment of the brotherly assistance]
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11 August 1641
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12 August 1641
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13 August 1641
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1641, 17 August, Edinburgh, Parliament
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Parliamentary Register
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At Edinburgh, 17 August 1641
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18 August 1641
- Procedure
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Legislation
- Act regarding the oath to be given by every member of parliament
- Act in favour of Robert [Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh, regarding his exoneration of the charge of presidency in parliament
- Act regarding the election of John [Elphinstone], lord Balmerino, to be president of this session of parliament
- Act and declaration by the king in favour of the members of parliament
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19 August 1641
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20 August 1641
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21 August 1641
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24 August 1641
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25 August 1641
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26 August 1641
- Procedure
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Legislation
- Act regarding the ratification of the articles of the treaty superscribed by the king and subscribed by [John Elphinstone, lord Balmerino], president of the parliament
- Articles of the large treaty concerning the establishing of the peace between the king's majesty and his people of Scotland and between the two kingdoms agreed upon by the Scottish and English commissioners at the city of Westminster, 7 August 1641
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Procedure: draft legislation
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Procedure: propositions by the Scottish commissioners and the English commissioners' answer
- Procedure: ratification of the treaty and all the articles thereof
- Procedure: supplication
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27 August 1641
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28 August 1641
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31 August 1641
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1 September 1641
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2 September 1641
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3 September 1641
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4 September 1641
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6 September 1641
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8 September 1641
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9 September 1641
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10 September 1641
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11 September 1641
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14 September 1641
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15 September 1641
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16 September 1641
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17 September 1641
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18 September 1641
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20 September 1641
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21 September 1641
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22 September 1641
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23 September 1641
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24 September 1641
- Procedure
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Legislation: private acts
- Act of approbation and exoneration in favour of [Sir William Douglas of Cavers], sheriff of Teviotdale
- Act of approbation and exoneration in favour of [Sir Patrick Hepburn], laird of Waughton
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of [William Drummond], laird of Riccarton
- Act of exoneration to Master Robert Barclay, provost of Irvine
- Ordinance in favour of William Cunningham of Polton
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Warrant
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25 September 1641
- Procedure
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Legislation: private acts
- Act of approbation and exoneration in favour of Master Archibald Johnston [of Wariston]
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of John Smith [of Grotehill]
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of Master Alexander Henderson
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of Adam Blair
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of Master Alexander Wedderburn
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of Hugh Kennedy
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Legislation
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Procedure: report of the committee for the army
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28 September 1641
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29 September 1641
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30 September 1641
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1 October 1641
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2 October 1641
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4 October 1641
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5 October 1641
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6 October 1641
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8 October 1641
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9 October 1641
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12 October 1641
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13 October 1641
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14 October 1641
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15 October 1641
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16 October 1641
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19 October 1641
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20 October 1641
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21 October 1641
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22 October 1641
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26 October 1641
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28 October 1641
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29 October 1641
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30 October 1641
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1 November 1641
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2 November 1641
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3 November 1641
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4 November 1641
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5 November 1641
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6 November 1641
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9 November 1641
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10 November 1641
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11 November 1641
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12 November 1641
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13 November 1641
- Procedure
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Procedure: remit in favour of the sheriffdom of Dunbarton
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Legislation: private act
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Procedure: remit to the committee for common burdens
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Procedure: election and nomination of officers of state
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Procedure: gift of the office of secretary
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Procedure: discharge of the office of treasury principal
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Procedure: nomination and election of clerk register
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Procedure: nomination and election of privy councillors
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Procedure: nomination and election of ordinary and extraordinary lords of session
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Legislation: private act
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15 November 1641
- Procedure
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Procedure: ordinance for riding of parliament
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Procedure: determination concerning those who are not lords of parliament
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Procedure: protest, asking of instruments
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Legislation
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Procedure: commissions
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Legislation
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Legislation: private act
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Procedure: decision concerning the officers of fortune
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Legislation: private acts
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Procedure: commission
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16 November 1641
- Procedure
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Warrant
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Procedure: commissions
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Legislation
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Legislation: private act
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Judicial proceeding: summons of treason
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Procedure: commissions
-
Legislation
-
Procedure: remit to the privy council
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Procedure: commission
-
Legislation
-
Legislation: private act
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Procedure: commission
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Legislation
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Legislation: private act
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Procedure: ordinance concerning the Highlands and broken men
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Legislation
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Procedure: remit
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Legislation
- Act regarding loyal packing of salmon
- Act regarding the excise of herring
- Act discharging the importation of strong waters
- Act regarding the superiority of lands and others which formerly held of bishops and their chapters, to be now held of the king
- Act discharging the mixing of tin with lead
- Act regarding the election of the president of parliament
- Act regarding the taking order with rebels and broken men
- Act regarding the directing of cockets within the regality of St Andrews
- Act regarding coal miners
- Act ordaining the pursuer of the thief to be restored to his own goods
- Act regarding the discharging of advocations for sums within £100
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Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
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Legislation
- Act regarding cockets and entries of ships modifying the entry to 23s 4d and the cocket to 40s
- Act against destroying of planting and others
- Act discharging the transportation of eggs
- Act regarding the liberation of those men in the castle, namely: [James Graham], earl of Montrose, [Archibald Napier], lord Napier, lairds [Sir George Stirling of] Keir and [Sir Archibald Stewart of] Blackhall, Sir Walter Stewart, Sir Robert Spottiswood [of Dunipace] and Sir John Hay [of Bara], with their act of caution
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At Edinburgh, 17 November 1641
- Procedure: cautioners for the Earl of Montrose and others
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Procedure: remits to the exchequer
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Legislation: private act
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Warrants
-
Legislation: private act
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Procedure: remits to the privy council, exchequer and committee of common burdens
- Reference in favour of [Robert Maxwell], earl of Nithsdale
- Reference in favour of Sir James Ramsay, colonel
- Reference in favour of [John Sinclair], lord Sinclair
- Reference in favour of Sir John Stewart [of Coldingham]
- Reference in favour of William Dick of Braid
- Reference in favour of William Dick, James Farquhar and others
- Reference in favour of widow Hunter and her children
- Reference in favour of Anna Inglis
- Reference in favour of [David] Curror against [Sir Alexander Fraser], laird of Philorth
- Reference in favour of Jean Auchmuty
- Reference in favour of James Sinclair of Scalloway and John Edmonston, minister
- Reference in favour of MacLeod against [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth
- Reference in favour of [Sir Patrick Hepburn], laird of Waughton
- Procedure: concluding of parliament
- Sederunt
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Procedure: protests: asking of instruments
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Judicial Proceeding: submissions by the Earl of Galloway and the town of Wigtown
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Legislation
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Procedure: remit to the privy council
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Legislation
-
Procedure: remits to the king and the privy council
-
Legislation
-
Procedure: remit to the exchequer
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Legislation
-
Letter: in favour of the Earl of Rothes and others
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Procedure: remit to the committee for common burdens
-
Legislation: private acts
- Act of exoneration and approbation in favour of [Alexander Leslie], earl of Leven, lord general
- Act of approbation and exoneration to [Colonel Alexander Hamilton], general of the artillery, General Major [William] Baillie, General Major Munro, General Major [Alexander] Leslie and the general quarter-master
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Procedure: ordinance regarding the forces
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Legislation
-
Procedure: remits to the exchequer and the committee for common burdens
-
Procedure: commission
-
Legislation: private act
-
Procedure: remit to the committee for common burdens
-
Legislation: private acts
-
Warrant: regarding the remainder of the treaty
-
Legislation: private acts
- Ratification in favour of Sir William Scott of Clerkington
- Ratification to the burgh of Forres
- Ratification to [John Crawford], laird of Kilbirnie
- Ratification to [James Melville], laird of Halhill
- Ratification to Sir John Preston [of Penicuik]
- Ratification in favour of [John Lindsay], earl of Lindsay
- Ratification to the burgh of Kirkcudbright
- Ratification to James Sinclair of Scalloway
- Ratification to William Maxwell of Kirkhouse
- Ratification to [John Shaw], laird of Greenock
- Ratification to the burgh of Lauder
- Act in favour of the burgh of Jedburgh
- Ratification in favour of Margaret Stewart of her letters of rehabilitation
- Ratification to Thomas Forbes of Waterton
- Ratification to [James Home], earl of Home of his infeftment of the barony of Duns
- Ratification to [Alexander Belsches], laird of Tofts
- Ratification to Sir Andrew Skene [of Auchtertool]
- Ratification in favour of Sir Thomas Nicolson
- Ratification to Master John Skene
- Ratification in favour of the weavers of Edinburgh
- Ratification to the town of Edinburgh regarding the ministers' stipends
- Ratification in favour of Heriot's Hospital
- Ratification in favour of General [Alexander] Leslie, earl of Leven
- Ratification to Master James Baird
- Ratification in favour of David Carnegie of Ethie
- Ratification in favour of Robert and Master John Pringle
- Ratification to the masons and wrights of Edinburgh
- Ratification to the burgh of Dumbarton
- Ratification to [Alexander Swinton], laird of Swinton
- Ratification to [George Forrester], lord Forrester
- Ratification to [Sir William Douglas], laird of Glenbervie
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Renfrew
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Montrose
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Dundee
- Ratification to [William Kerr], earl of Lothian of his infeftments of Newbattle
- Ratification to [William Kerr], earl of Lothian of his lands of Nenthorn
- Ratification in favour of [Sir Alexander Foulis], laird of Colinton
- Ratification to John Arnott of Woodmill
- Ratification of the house and family of Ruthven of Ballindean
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Linlithgow
- Ratification of the decreet arbitral between [Walter Scott], earl of Buccleuch and Francis Stewart
- Ratification to John Moodie
- Ratification in favour of the minister at Holyroodhouse
- Ratification in favour of [John Stewart], earl of Traquair
- Ratification in favour of Master James Lawson [of Cairnmuir]
- Ratification in favour of [Sir William Douglas of Cavers], sheriff of Teviotdale
- Ratification in favour of [James Crichton], laird of Frendraught
- Ratification in favour of Sir John Smith [of Grotehill]
- Ratification to Master James Scott [of Bonnington]
- Act regarding the erection of the kirk of Elie
- Act for establishing of a particular register of sasines for the sheriffdom of Argyll at Inveraray
- Ratification and act regarding the erection of the kirk of Anstruther Easter
- Act regarding the disuniting of the kirk of Denny from Falkirk
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Glasgow of their infeftments
- Ratification in favour of John Dickson [of Hartree]
- Ratification in favour of [William Keith], earl Marischal
- Ratification in favour of the old and new colleges of Aberdeen
- Ratification in favour of Master Peter Hewitt
- Ratification in favour of the University of Glasgow
- Ratification to Sir John Seaton
- Ratification to the schoolmaster of Auchtertool
- Ratification to the north kirk of Leith
- Act of erection of the kirk of Careston
- Ratification of the mortification of the teinds of Overcareston
- Ratification to Master Thomas Mitchell
- Ratification to [Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline of the patronage of Moy and Dyke
- Ratification to [Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline of his tack of the lordship of Dunfermline
- Ratification in favour of [William Douglas], earl of Morton
- Ratification to John Semple [of Stainflett]
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Procedure: commission
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Legislation: private acts
- Ratification in favour of [John Lyon], earl of Kinghorn
- Ratification in favour of the town of Musselburgh
- Ratification to the town of Glasgow of their gift of spirituality thereof
- Ratification in favour of Patrick Ruthven
- Ratification in favour of Robert Leslie of the bishopric of Orkney
- Ratification in favour of the minister of Culross
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Procedure: commission
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Legislation: private acts
- [Ratification to the town of Perth]
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Whithorn
- Ratification in favour of [James Livingstone], lord Almond
- Ratification in favour of Master Laurence Scott [of Harperrig]
- Ratification in favour of [James Home], earl of Home
- Ratification to the town of Dunbar
- Ratification in favour of the Marquis of Hamilton
- Ratification in favour of the town of Dunkeld
- Ratification to [John Cunningham], laird of Barns and James Maxwell [of Innerwick]
- Ratification to [William Ramsay], earl of Dalhousie
- Ratification to Alexander Gordon of Earlston
- Ratification to [John Leslie], earl of Rothes
- Ratification to the surgeons in Edinburgh
- Ratification to the burgh of Peebles
- Ratification to [Alexander Erskine], laird of Dun of two tacks
- Act in favour of the hatmakers of Edinburgh
- Ratification to [John Forbes], laird of Leslie
- Ratification in favour of [Andrew Fraser], lord Fraser
- Ratification to Master David Forrester
- Ratification to the town of Aberdeen of the kirk of St Nicholas
- Ratification regarding the disuniting of Kirkmabreck and Kirkdale from Anwoth
- Ratification in favour of [Sir George Stirling], laird of Keir
- Ratification to Master William Wardlaw
- Ratification to William Gordon of Kirkconnell
- Ratification in favour of [James Stewart], duke of Lennox
- Ratification in favour of the minister of Dunoon
- Ratification in favour of the minister of Dornoch
- Ratification in favour of [James Ogilvie], earl of Findlater
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Aberdeen
- Ratification to the kirk of Glenluce
- Ratification to John Malcolm
- Ratification to Colonel John Leslie
- Act regarding the erection of the hospital of Balhalgardy
- Ratification to Alexander Maxwell of Dechmont
- Ratification to Master Harry Chap
- Ratification in favour of the town of Edinburgh
- Ratification in favour of [David Beaton], laird of Balfour
- Ratification in favour of John Innes of Leuchars
- Ratification to the minister of Dunkeld of 1,000 merks
- Ratification to James Gordon
- Ratification in favour of the parishioners of Markinch
- Ratification in favour of [Robert Adair], laird of Kinhilt
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Rutherglen
- Ratification to Colonel [Alexander] Hamilton
- Ratification to the beadsmen of Magdalene Chapel
- Ratification to [Patrick Murray], earl of Tullibardine
- Ratification to Master Alexander Wedderburn
- Ratification to Sir William Dick [of Braid] of his rights of North Berwick
- Ratification to Sir William Dick [of Braid] of the teinds of Dunbar
- Ratification in favour of [Sir David Home], laird of Wedderburn
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of St Andrews
- Ratification in favour of John Hamilton of Boghall
- Ratification of the contract between the king's majesty and [William Keith], earl Marischal regarding the wadset of the lordship of Deer
- Act regarding the erection of the kirk of Longside
- Ratification in favour of [Patrick Maule], laird of Panmure of his infeftment of the lordship of Brechin and Navar
- Ratification in favour of [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull of his infeftment of the barony of Dupplin, with a dissolution
- Ratification in favour of [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull of his infeftment of the barony of Kinfauns
- Ratification to [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull of his tack of the teinds of Cousland
- Ratification in favour of [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth of his infeftment of Lewis, with a dissolution
- Ratification in favour of James Pearson of his infeftment of Auchtermeggetes
- Ratification in favour of Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston, justice clerk, of his infeftment of the lands of Orbiston
- Ratification in favour of William Gray of his infeftment of the baronies of Fowlis and Forgan and of the patent of honour in favour of William [Gray], master of Gray
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Procedure: commission
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Legislation: private acts
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Procedure: remit to the commission for the plantation of kirks
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Legislation: private acts
- Ratification in favour of [James Elphinstone], lord Coupar of his infeftments of Castleton and Ingliston
- Act in favour of the burgh of Selkirk regarding a fair to be held therein yearly on 4 July
- Ratification in favour of Sir James Balfour of his infeftment of Kinnaird
- Ratification in favour of [Thomas MacKenzie], laird of Pluscarden of his infeftment of Pluscarden
- Ratification of the erection of the lordship of Cardross
- Ratification in favour of Sir [Thomas] Stewart, younger, of Grandtully, of his infeftments of the lands of Strathbraan
- Ratification in favour of [Sir John Wauchope], laird of Niddrie of his infeftment of Niddrie-Marischal
- Ratification in favour of William Seton of Grange of his gift of general postmaster, containing an exception in favour of the burghs of Burntisland and Kinghorn
- Ratification in favour of the town of Wick of their infeftment, with a declaration declaring the said town to be the head burgh of the sheriffdom of Caithness
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Procedure: commission
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Legislation: private acts
- Ratification in favour of the town of Burntisland of an act of exchequer
- Ratification in favour of [Gilbert Hay], earl of Erroll of his pension
- Ratification in favour of [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull of his right of the lands of Erroll
- Ratification of the mutual bond amongst the heritors adjacent to the Pow of Inchaffray
- Ratification to William Gray of Pittendrum and William, master of Gray, his son, of their tack of their teinds of their lands within the parishes of Fowlis and Longforgan
- Ratification in favour of the ministers of Navar
- Ratification in favour of the ministers of Brechin
- Ratification in favour of Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, one of the senators of the college of justice
- Ratification in favour of Master John Cant
- Ratification in favour of the feuars of Kylesmuir
- Ratification in favour of James Dunbar
- Ratification in favour of [Archibald Campbell], lord Lorne
- [Ratification of a deliverance of the secret council in favour of the tacksmen of the teind herring at Dunbar]
- Ratification in favour of [George Aitken of Underedge], laird of Aitken
- Ratification in favour of Sir James MacGill of Cranstoun-Riddel
- Ratification in favour of Sir James MacGill of Cranstoun-Riddel
- Ratification in favour of Sir James Scott of Rossie [for his pension]
- Ratification in favour of Sir James Scott of Rossie [regarding the barony of Rossie]
- Ratification in favour of [Alexander Montgomery], earl of Eglinton
- Ratification in favour of [James Douglas], earl of Queensberry
- Ratification in favour of the wrights of the Canongate
- Ratification in favour of [Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall], my lord advocate
- Ratification in favour of [James] Somerville of Drum
- Ratification in favour of Robert Pringle of Stichill
- Ratification in favour of John Carstairs [of Newgrange]
- Ratification in favour of [Sir Ludovic Houston], laird of Houston
- Ratification in favour of Doctor [James] Chalmers
- Ratification in favour of James Maxwell of Innerwick
- Ratification in favour of [John Maitland], earl of Lauderdale
- Ratification in favour of Master William Cochrane of Cowdoun
- Ratification in favour of the burgh of Irvine
- Ratification in favour of [Sir John Dalmahoy], laird of Dalmahoy
- Ratification in favour of South Queensferry
- Ratification in favour of Sir Richard Graham
- Ratification in favour of William Scott and his brethren
- Ratification and act in favour of the kirk of Crichton
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Procedure: protests; asking of instruments
- Protestation of [John Gordon], earl of Sutherland
- Protestation of the town of Kinghorn and [Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline against [James Melville of] Halhill's ratification
- Protestation for the king's udallers in Orkney
- Protestation of the town of Renfrew against [John Shaw], laird of Greenock's ratification
- Protestation of the wrights of the Canongate against the ratification of the wrights of Edinburgh
- Protestation of [Archibald Campbell], marquis of Argyll against the ratification in favour of the town of Dumbarton
- Protestation of the town of Glasgow against the town of Dumbarton's ratification
- Protestation of the town of Glasgow against the town of Renfrew's ratification
- Protestation of the town of Renfrew against the ratification of the town of Glasgow
- Protestation of the town of Dumbarton against the town of Glasgow's ratification
- Protestation of [Sir Alexander Erskine], laird of Dun against the town of Montrose's ratification
- Protestation of [Sir Ludovic Houston], laird of Houston against the ratification of Renfrew
- Protestation of [Maxwell], laird of Newark against the town of Renfrew
- Protestation of [James Hamilton], marquis of Hamilton against the ratification of the town of Linlithgow
- Protestation for [Francis Scott], earl of Buccleuch and [Thomas Hamilton, earl of] Haddington and Sir Gideon Baillie of Lochend against Francis Stewart's ratification
- Protestation of the town of Peebles against [John Stewart], earl of Traquair's ratification
- Protestation of [James Livingstone], lord Almond against the act for the kirk of Denny
- Protestation of [Sir Walter Stewart], laird of Minto against the ratification of the town of Glasgow
- Protestation of the town of Renfrew against the ratification to [Sir Ludovic Houston], laird of Houston
- Protestation of the kirk of Kilrenny against the ratification and erection of the kirk of Anstruther Easter
- Protestation of Sir William Dick [of Braid] and whole fishers against [George Aitken of Underedge], laird of Aitken's ratification
- Protestation of the town of Edinburgh against ratification of the wrights of the Canongate
- Protestation of the town of Edinburgh against Robert Leslie's ratification
- Protestation of [Alexander Stewart], earl of Galloway against the ratification in favour of the University of Glasgow
- Protestation of [John Drummond], earl of Perth against the town of Newburgh's ratification
- Protestation and declaration of [Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline against the ratification in favour of Queensferry
- Protestation for the town of Ayr against the town of Irvine's ratification
- Protestation for [...] Home, son to the late Colonel Home, against John Carstairs's ratification
- Protestation of the town of Brechin against the act of erection of the kirk of Careston
- Protestation of [John Maitland], earl of Lauderdale against the town of Musselburgh's ratification
- Protestation and declaration of [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull against Patrick Ruthven's ratification
- Protestation of the town of Edinburgh against the act in favour of the hatmakers of Edinburgh
- Protestation of [John Gordon], laird of Haddo against [Andrew Fraser], lord Fraser and [John Forbes], laird of Leslie, their ratifications
- Protestation for the sheriffdom of Aberdeen against the town of Aberdeen's ratification
- Protestation of [John Maitland], lord Maitland against [James Home], earl of Home's ratification
- Protestation of [John Hay], lord Yester against the town of Peebles' ratification
- Protestation and declaration in favour of the procurator and [clerk] for the kirk regarding their fees
- Protestation of [James Hamilton], marquis of Hamilton against [James Stewart], duke of Lennox's ratification
- Protestation of the College of Glasgow against the town of Glasgow's ratification
- Protestation of the College of Glasgow against the town of Glasgow's ratification of their gift of the spirituality of the bishopric of Glasgow
- Protestation for Robert Leslie against the ratifications of the gifts of the bishops' rents of Orkney, with the king's declaration relating thereto
- Protestation of [Sir Harry Montgomery], laird of Giffen against the College of Glasgow's ratification of the bishopric of Galloway
- Protestation of [James Stewart], earl of Moray against [John] Innes of Leuchars' ratification
- Protestation of the town of Glasgow against the town of Rutherglen's ratification
- Protestation of [Sir Gilbert Ramsay], laird of Balmain against [Patrick Maule], laird of Panmure's ratification
- Protestation of [Archibald Campbell], marquis of Argyll against [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth's ratification
- Protestation of [John Gordon], earl of Sutherland against [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth's ratification
- Protestation of [James Hamilton], marquis of Hamilton against the town of Lanark's ratification
- Protestation and declaration of the town of Dumbarton against Renfrew's ratification
- Protestation and declaration of the town of Renfrew against the town of Dumbarton's ratification
- Protestation of [Campbell], laird of Lawers against [Patrick Murray], earl of Tullibardine's ratification
- Protestation of [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth against the town of Wick's ratification
- Protestation of [David Carnegie], earl of Southesk against the ratification in favour of the ministers of Brechin, with [Robert Dempster], commissioner of Brechin's protestation in the contrary
- Protestation of Alexander Urquhart against the town of Cromarty's ratification
- Protestation of [James Hamilton], marquis of Hamilton against the town of Glasgow's ratification
- Protestation of [John Hay, lord Yester] against the ratification in favour of [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull
- Protestation of [William Keith], earl Marischal against [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull's ratification
- Protestation of Patrick Whitelaw against Margaret Stewart's ratification
- Protestation of [Archibald Douglas, lord] Angus against the ratification granted in favour of [Sir William Douglas], laird of Glenbervie
- Protestation for the burgh of Glasgow regarding their place and rank in parliament
- Protestation for the University and College of Glasgow against the ratification in favour of the minister and schoolmaster of Glenluce
- Protestation in favour of [Gilbert Hay], earl of Erroll, high constable of Scotland
- Protestation of Sir John Stirling against the ratification in favour of the University of St Andrews, 3 November 1641, although it is written below here
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Legislation
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Procedure: regarding the patent to the Earl of Argyll to be Marquis
- Procedure: speech by the Lord Loudoun and sermon by Master Alexander Henderson
- Procedure: declaration of the clerk register
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Parliamentary Minutes
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17 August 1641
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18 August 1641
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19 August 1641
- [Instructions to the lord general for the marching of the army; remit of the committee for disbanding the army; lieutenant general given leave to attend the army]
- [Attendance of members of parliaments at committees; times of meetings of the bodies, parliament and committees]
- [Committee for revising acts and articles appointed; article for pacification of the north remitted to each estate]
- [Supplications of the officers of state to be taken into further consideration; member seeks to be excused; membership of committee for revising the registers continued]
- [Overture regarding the copper coin remitted to the committee for revising the acts and articles; ratification of the acts made in this session remitted to the king]
- [Act for a commission for hearing all accounts continued; proclamation for dispensation of the sitting of inferior judicatories delayed]
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20 August 1641
- [Manifesto in favour of the Prince Elector Palatine remitted to each estate; petition read; instruments taken]
- [Petition read and granted; overture for the commissariat courts remitted to each estate; prisoner apprehended]
- [Overtures for universities and schools remitted to each estate; committee for revising the acts and articles ordered to meet]
- [Overtures for pacification of the north remitted to each estate; member given leave to attend the army; proclamation regarding the army to be published]
- [Membership of committee for revising the registers continued; proclamation for the dispensation of the sitting of inferior judicatories to be published]
- [Overtures regarding the dispute between officers of parliament continued; committee for the plotters appointed to meet; consideration of the macers' bill continued]
- [Membership of the committee for the accounts continued; absence of member remitted to the barons; member excused]
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21 August 1641
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24 August 1641
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25 August 1641
- [Absent members; report of committee for the Earl of Montrose's supplication read]
- [Supplications craving liberty from imprisonment refused; treaty of London subscribed by the king and commissioners]
- [Query whether the commissioners returned from London should resume their places in parliament remitted to the barons and burghs]
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26 August 1641
- [Commissioner for Haddingtonshire ordered to resume his place; treaty of London ratified; paper to be prefixed to the treaty remitted to each estate]
- [Decision regarding preferred commission for Roxburgh continued; penalties for absence at committees]
- [Committee appointed to consult with the king regarding those issues not resolved in the treaty of London]
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27 August 1641
- [Committee for the bills ordered to meet; supplication read and party cited; supplication read and approved by the king]
- [Supplication read; party brought in and caution granted; declaration against the imprisonment of Sir William Cockburn of Langton, usher, amended]
- [Report of the committee for revising the acts and articles read and approved]
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28 August 1641
- [Acts approved and ordered to be published; parties cited before parliament; summons continued and instruments taken]
- [Instructions for the disbanding of the English army approved; committee appointed for drawing up an accompanying letter]
- [Supplication read and parties ordered to find caution to remain within Edinburgh; bills concerning inferior judicatories continued; Laird of Morphie excused]
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31 August 1641
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1 September 1641
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2 September 1641
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3 September 1641
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4 September 1641
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6 September 1641
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8 September 1641
- [Supplication read and approved; letter of recommendation to the estates of Holland remitted to each estate]
- [Debate regarding the estates' veto in the appointment of officers of state, council and session continued; letters for the disbanding of the English army]
- [Committees and the bodies ordered to meet; overtures concerning manufactories remitted to each estate and the lord advocate]
- [Supplications remitted to the committee for the disorders in the north; supplication and protest read and remitted to the Earl of Roxburghe; letter to be written to Lord Maitland]
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9 September 1641
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10 September 1641
- [Ratification read and continued; membership of committee for the distressed ministers in the north; acts read and approved]
- [Memorandum for the election of a committee to hear the accounts of commissaries remitted to each estate; commission for manufactories appointed]
- [Act regarding the separation of the baronies of Nether Ancrum etc. from the regality of Glasgow withdrawn; overtures for suppressing broken men remitted to each estate]
- [Earl of Galloway's request for advocates to plead for him against the burgh of Wigtown continued; act read and approved; continuation]
- [Supplication recommended to the king; supplication continued; supplication be taken into further consideration; instruments taken]
- [Supplications read and witnesses cited; supplication read and answer thereto delayed]
- [Supplication remitted to the committee for the bills; supplications remitted to certain members; protection granted]
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11 September 1641
- [Act read and approved; propositions from the general assembly remitted to each estate]
- [Various business remitted to each estate; act regarding the precedency of commissioners of the shires continued]
- [Propositions regarding the exemplification of the articles of the treaty of London remitted to certain members]
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14 September 1641
- [Act to be prefixed to the treaty of London read and approved; supplication read and remitted to each estate]
- [Report of the committee for the distressed ministers in the north and commission for the plantation of kirks read and remitted to each estate]
- [Supplication remitted to the committee for the army; supplication to be taken into further consideration]
- [Dispensation to the commissaries of Edinburgh to sit; warrant in favour of those who died at Dunglass]
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15 September 1641
- [Supplication read and committee appointed to total up the accounts of the regiments which stayed in Scotland; regiments ordered to be disbanded]
- [The bodies and committees ordered to meet; propositions from the committee for the army remitted to each estate]
- [Supplication read and remitted to each estate; commission for the trial of Helen Moyes renewed]
- [Overtures for the peace of the north remitted to each estate; supplication remitted to Mr James Raith]
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16 September 1641
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17 September 1641
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18 September 1641
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20 September 1641
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21 September 1641
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22 September 1641
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23 September 1641
- [Supplication read and committee appointed to consider the proceedings of the supplicants; committees ordered to meet]
- [Remit of the committee for the distressed ministers in the north; supplication read and continued]
- [Protestation made regarding the officers of state; supplications granted; act for the printing of the acts of parliament of June 1640 remitted to each estate and the lord advocate]
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24 September 1641
- [Act discharging the exchequer to pass any gift of bishops' lands etc. remitted to the king; overtures from the kirk]
- [Report from the committee for the distressed ministers in the north read; addition to membership; committee for the creditors of the Earl of Stirling and Lord Alexander appointed]
- [Exoneration of the carriage of the shire and burgh commissioners in the treaty negotiations granted; continuation]
- [Supplication read and remitted to each estate; supplication read and witnesses cited; warrant granted to the bailies of Leith]
- [Commission for examining the witnesses in the process of the burgh of Wigtown against the Earl of Galloway; petition remitted to certain members]
- [Examination of the commissioners of burghs; supplication read]
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25 September 1641
- [Exoneration of the carriage of the commissioners in the treaty negotiations granted; warrant for printing the acts of parliament of June 1640 granted]
- [Proposition for keeping the peace of the borders remitted to the Earl of Roxburghe; reports of the committee for the army read]
- [Supplications read and remitted to each estate; committees appointed to meet; continuation]
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28 September 1641
- [The bodies ordered to meet regarding the estates' veto over officers of state; supplications read and warrant granted for payment of army]
- [Auditors for the commissary-general's accounts; commissions granted; exoneration of the carriage of commissioner in the treaty negotiations granted]
- [Warrant granted to the town of Edinburgh for receiving a prisoner in the tolbooth]
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29 September 1641
- [Report of the committee for the distressed ministers in the north approved; supplication remitted to the committee for the bills; supplication remitted to the lord advocate]
- [Supplication remitted to the committee for the army; supplication remitted to Robert Hepburn]
- [Overture for the election of Lord Loudoun as chancellor continued; commission for hearing the commissary-general's accounts appointed]
- [Addition to the committee for the distressed ministers in the north; supplications regarding the pay of the army remitted to each estate]
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30 September 1641
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1 October 1641
- [Approbation of Lord Almond's carriage as lieutenant general; committee for drawing up the patent of the office of chancellery appointed]
- [Act and gift regarding the election of Lord Loudoun as chancellor approved; supplications read and witnesses cited]
- [Supplication regarding the losses of the Earl of Home at Dunglass remitted to each estate; diet for hearing the process between the burgh of Wigtown and the Earl of Galloway; related letters to be delivered to the clerk]
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2 October 1641
- [Patent and gift of the office of chancellery to bear one date; mace and great seal exhibited before parliament; oaths taken by Lord Loudoun as chancellor]
- [Act of exoneration to Lord Almond approved; wording of oaths to be taken by all members read and to be taken into further consideration]
- [Lords of session ordered to proceed with usual business; continuation; fines for absent members]
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4 October 1641
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5 October 1641
- [Proclamation to be made regarding large gatherings in Edinburgh; committee ordered to meet; committee appointed to consider supplication]
- [Act for division of the kirk of Kilmarnock remitted to each estate; answers to the Laird of Craigmillar's supplication to be shown to the party]
- [Petitions regarding the pay of the army to be taken into further consideration; continuation]
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6 October 1641
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8 October 1641
- [Committee for the payment of the disbanded regiments appointed; advocates to meet regarding matters outstanding in the treaty of London]
- [Answer to remonstrance from the English commissioners for disbanding regiments and demolishing fortifications delayed; supplication regarding officers' pay continued]
- [Commission for hearing the commissary-general's accounts; continuation]
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9 October 1641
- [Continuation; act for division of the kirk of Kilmarnock approved; petition recommended to the English commissioners]
- [Petition read and remitted to each estate; supplication read and approved; dispensation to the justice granted]
- [Report remitted to certain members; commission granted to examine certain witnesses in the process of the burgh of Wigtown against the Earl of Galloway]
- [Supplication continued; commission for hearing the commissary-general's accounts approved]
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12 October 1641
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13 October 1641
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14 October 1641
- [Report of the committee for the confluence of people to Edinburgh read and approved; proclamation to be printed; petition of General Ruthven continued]
- [Supplications from the sequestered parties to be taken into further consideration; continuation]
- [Petition read and continued; protest of Lord Almond regarding the deposition of Captain William Stewart; supplicant freed from the tolbooth]
- [Continuation; president to subscribe the articles against unlawful convocation of the lieges]
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15 October 1641
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16 October 1641
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19 October 1641
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20 October 1641
- [Letter from the Prince of Orange to be translated into Scots; supplication read and continued; propositions regarding the disorders in the borders remitted to each estate]
- [Persons allowed access to the Earl of Crawford; representation by the king for a public trial of 'The Incident'; continuation]
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21 October 1641
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22 October 1641
- [Act for changing of the terms debated and continued; order for regiments to be disbanded and fortifications demolished; addition to committee for the pay of the army]
- [Committee to be appointed to treat with the English commissioners; petition of General Ruthven granted; amendments to the commission for taking trial of 'The Incident']
- [Earl of Nithsdale given leave to return home; committee for the overtures for the kirk appointed; commission for the disorders in the borders to be drawn up; continuation]
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26 October 1641
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28 October 1641
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29 October 1641
- [Report from the committee for the Irish business read and remitted to representatives of each estate; committee for repairing the burgh of Perth's bridge appointed]
- [Act for changing of the terms approved; supplication remitted to the committee for the bills; ratification remitted to the lord advocate; continuation]
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30 October 1641
- [Supplication read and copy issued to party; report of the committee for considering the number of boats on the west coast approved]
- [Supplications remitted to the committee for the bills; supplication read and copy issued to party]
- [Supplications remitted to the lord advocate and committee for the bills; ratification approved]
- [Members nominated to be present at the examination of the Earl of Montrose; continuation]
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1 November 1641
- [The king's representation regarding the commotions in Ireland remitted to committee for the Irish business; order for the return of the Marquis of Hamilton and the earls of Argyll and Lanark approved]
- [Auditors for hearing the commissary-general's accounts ordered to meet under penalties; ratification remitted to each estate; continuation]
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2 November 1641
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3 November 1641
- [Report of the committee for the examination of the Earl of Montrose to be taken into further consideration; report of the committee for the Irish business remitted to each estate]
- [Ratification of the mortification of the bishopric of St Andrews approved; protests against; continuation; amendments to the aforesaid ratification]
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4 November 1641
- [Date of public fast; committees ordered to meet; business recommended to the several bodies]
- [Supplication read and access to prisoners granted; supplication read and payment of arrears granted]
- [Advocates appointed for the burgh of Wigtown in their process against the Earl of Galloway; supplication approved; continuation]
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5 November 1641
- [Supplication remitted to the committee for the accommodation of business; answers to supplication remitted to the Earl of Seaforth]
- [Business regarding the bridge of Berwick remitted to certain members; various overtures and supplication remitted to each estate and the lord advocate]
- [Supplication read; act in favour of the town of Dornoch approved; continuation]
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6 November 1641
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9 November 1641
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10 November 1641
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11 November 1641
- [Committee appointed to consider the business regarding the Prince Elector Palatine; committee appointed to consider the ratifications produced before parliament]
- [Committee appointed to consider the catalogue of acts exhibited before parliament; supplications remitted to committee for regulating the common burdens]
- [Supplications read and committees appointed; acts approved; ratification and supplications to be taken into further consideration; continuation]
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12 November 1641
- [Report of the committee to consider the business regarding the Prince Elector Palatine approved; ammunition to be sent to Ireland; powers of the commissioners to be appointed for the kirk]
- [Refusal to deal with newly submitted business; committee to be appointed for taking inspection of the processes of those cited to parliament; continuation]
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13 November 1641
- [Act adding several parishes to the sheriffdom of Dunbarton continued until the next parliament; supplication recommended to the king]
- [Commission for the plantation of kirks remitted to a committee for revision; supplication remitted to the committee for regulating the common burdens]
- [Nomination of officers of state, treasury, council and session; protest against; continuation]
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15 November 1641
- [Proclamation for the riding of parliament approved; query regarding the place of lords at public or private meetings continued]
- [Amendments to the commission for the plantation of kirks; protests against; act regarding the penalties to be imposed on violators of the Lord's day approved]
- [Act regarding the superiority of lands held of collegiate kirks remitted to each estate; proclamation for the down-sitting of the session approved]
- [Report and remonstrance remitted to each estate; ratification and commissions approved; supplications to be taken into further consideration]
- [Acts approved; continuation; supplications remitted to the committee for regulating the common burdens]
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16 November 1641
- [Supplication read and warrant granted for prisoner's release; commissions and acts approved; nomination of master of requests]
- [Commission approved and nomination of commissioners remitted to the privy council; act approved; supplication remitted to committee for regulating the common burdens]
- [Act approved and prejudiced parties remitted to the privy council; commission approved and nomination of commissioners remitted to the privy council; acts approved; instruments taken]
- [Commission approved; act approved; acts read and ordered to be taken into further consideration]
- [Supplication read and witness cited before the privy council; commissions and acts remitted to the privy council; acts approved]
- [Act remitted to the lord advocate to be amended; acts approved; protest against]
- [Supplications read and warrants granted for prisoners' release; liberty granted to those cited who are outwith the country; supplications remitted to the exchequer]
- [Supplication for payment of losses granted; supplications read and warrants granted for prisoners' release; recommendation to the parliament of England granted]
- [Supplications remitted to the privy council; supplications remitted to the committee for regulating the common burdens; supplication remitted to the exchequer]
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17 November 1641
- [Protests over precedency; list of persons to whom the process of the burgh of Wigtown against the Earl of Galloway is remitted]
- [Act approved; warrant granted to the privy council; commission of exchequer to be amended; acts and supplication remitted to the privy council; acts approved]
- [Supplications remitted to the exchequer; acts approved; supplications remitted to the committee for regulating the common burdens; exoneration granted to the lord general]
- [Recompense granted to the officers of the army and recommendations to the committee for regulating the common burdens ; act for the release of the Earl of Montrose and others approved]
- [Protests against ratifications passed this day]
- [Act approved; nomination of the keepers of the castles of Edinburgh and Dumbarton; warrant granted to the privy council regarding the outstanding issues of the treaty of London]
- [Minister to attend the commissioners for the outstanding issues of the treaty of London; day of thanksgiving; act approved; Marquis of Argyll's patent passed; speech and sermon given]
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Additional Sources
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17 August 1641
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19 August 1641
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20 August 1641
- [Petition of the eldest sons and heirs of the nobility, desiring liberty to have access to the chamber to hear the debates]
- [Petition of Sir John Hay for his liberty within Edinburgh Castle]
- [Articles given in to parliament by the commissioners of the general assembly]
- [Overtures from the general assembly for universities and colleges]
- [Overtures from the general assembly for schools]
- [Overtures for settling the differences between the lord constable and lord marischal]
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24 August 1641
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25 August 1641
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26 August 1641
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27 August 1641
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28 August 1641
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30 August 1641
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31 August 1641
- [Overtures of the nobility regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [Address to the king regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [Memorandum for the king's delay in giving answer to the parliament's last demands]
- [Answers to the king's doubts concerning the election of officers of state, council and session]
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2 September 1641
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3 September 1641
- [Act containing the form and words to be prefixed and subjoined to the treaty of London to pass the great seal]
- [Minutes of the meeting of the nobility regarding the king's nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [The king's answer to the nomination of the officers of state, council and session]
- [Articles from the barons concerning the king's answer to the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [Articles from the burghs concerning the king's answer to the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
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4 September 1641
- [The remonstrance of the estates of parliament concerning the Prince Elector Palatine]
- [Act in favour of the Prince Elector Palatine for restraint of levies and recruits of the army]
- [Minutes of the commissioners of the shires regarding a meeting with the other estates to debate the king's declaration]
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8 September 1641
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14 September 1641
- [Warrant to the clerk of parliament to subjoin the form and words previously agreed to the treaty of London for passing the great seal]
- [Commission for plantation of kirks, valuation of teinds and ministers' stipends]
- [Supplication of the executors of those who died at Dunglass House for confirmation of their testaments]
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16 September 1641
- [Act regarding the election of officers of state, council and session]
- [Petition of William Home of Ayton and Sir James Baillie of Lochend]
- [Memorandum by the burghs regarding the commission for plantation of kirks, valuation of teinds and ministers' stipends]
- [Answers to the burghs' memorandum regarding the commission for plantation of kirks, valuation of teinds and ministers' stipends]
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17 September 1641
- [Petition of Mr William Turnbull for the passage of the gift of John Turnbull through the exchequer]
- [Petition of Alexander Ramsay for passage of his gift through the exchequer]
- [Minutes of the meeting of the nobility regarding the king's nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [List of persons nominated by the king to be officers of state and council]
- [Minutes of the meeting of the commissioners of the shires regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
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21 September 1641
- [Meeting of the bodies regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [Minutes of the meeting of the nobility regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [Overtures regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
- [Resignation of the places of current officers of state, council and session]
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22 September 1641
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23 September 1641
- [Supplication of the commissioners of shires and burghs for exoneration of their carriage in the treaty negotiations]
- [Supplication of Mr Robert Barclay, provost of Irvine, for exoneration of his carriage in the treaty negotiations]
- [Supplication of John Chisholm of Cromlix for passage of his gift through the exchequer]
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24 September 1641
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25 September 1641
- [Supplication of Mr Archibald Johnston, procurator for the kirk, for exoneration of his carriage in the treaty negotiations]
- [Supplication of Adam Blair for exoneration of his carriage in the treaty negotiations]
- [Warrant for printing the acts of parliament of June 1640, with the wording for the title page]
- [Petition of Sir Richard Graham for regulating the disorders in the borders]
- [Report from the committee of the army regarding the pay of officers of fortune]
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28 September 1641
- [Supplication of the officers and soldiers of the army for payment of their arrears]
- [Report of the committee of the army regarding the payment of officers and soldiers]
- [Supplication of William Thomson regarding the payment of officers]
- [Commission for transportation of John and Thomas Black to Edinburgh for trial]
- [Supplication of Mr Alexander Henderson for exoneration of his carriage in the treaty negotiations]
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29 September 1641
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30 September 1641
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1 October 1641
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2 October 1641
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5 October 1641
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6 October 1641
- [Supplication of the lieutenant colonels and majors of horse and foot for their arrears of pay]
- [Supplication of the officers of fortune within the country for their arrears of pay]
- [Copy of the king's letter to the queen of Sweden in favour of the Prince Elector Palatine]
- [Propositions from the general committee regarding the nomination of officers of state, council and session]
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7 October 1641
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9 October 1641
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11 October 1641
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14 October 1641
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15 October 1641
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20 October 1641
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23 October 1641
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26 October 1641
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27 October 1641
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28 October 1641
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29 October 1641
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30 October 1641
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2 November 1641
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3 November 1641
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4 November 1641
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5 November 1641
- [Supplication of the Earl of Crawford for release from his imprisonment]
- [Report from the committee for considering the supplication for repairing the bridge at Perth]
- [Petition of Alexander Cunningham for reparation of his losses]
- [Commission for plantation of kirks, valuation of teinds and ministers' stipends]
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9 November 1641
- [Answers for Sir William Baillie of Lamington against the supplication of General Major Baillie]
- [Supplication of Sir William Baillie of Lamington]
- [Answers of the commissioners of the kirk to the observations of the committee for the overtures to the kirk]
- [Proposed amendments of the nobility to the commission for plantation of kirks, valuation of teinds and ministers' stipends]
- [Supplication of Isobel Geichan for trial of her divorce before parliament]
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10 November 1641
- [Ratification of the king's declaration regarding the teinds of bishops' kirks]
- [The king's declaration regarding the teinds of bishops' kirks]
- [Supplication of Donald MacLeod]
- [Ratification of the act of 1579 regarding the discharge of private writings, charges and commands to the lords of session]
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11 November 1641
- [Supplication of Colonel Alexander Hamilton, general of the artillery, for payment of arrears]
- [Supplication of Colonel Alexander Hamilton, general of the artillery, for exoneration of his carriage]
- [Supplication of the Countess of Home for reparation for her losses at Dunglass]
- [Supplication of Sir Patrick Drummond, conservator in the Low Countries]
- [The commissioners of the shires' answers to the proposed amendments of the nobility to the commission for plantation of kirks, valuation of teinds and ministers' stipends]
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12 November 1641
- [Report of the committee to consider the business regarding the Prince Elector Palatine]
- [Supplication of James Brown and James Hill for reparation of their losses]
- [Draft ratification of the acts regarding streets and common highways]
- [Act against deprived messengers]
- [Petition of Andrew Arnott, sometime of Barcaple, for the teinds of the parish of Tongland]
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13 November 1641
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15 November 1641
- [Proclamation for the riding of parliament at the closure of the session]
- [Proclamation for the sitting of the court of session]
- [Report of the committee for trial of those cited to parliament]
- [Remonstrance of the craftsmen of Scotland regarding the office of master of works]
- [Supplication of John Drymmie for a commission to the provost and bailies of Montrose for trying the murder of Isobel Drymmie]
- [Supplication of the officers of fortune within the country for payment of their arrears]
- [Supplication by the officers imprisoned at Newcastle for reparation of their losses]
- [A true note of the losses sustained by the officers imprisoned at Newcastle]
- [Draft act remitting the supplication of the officers imprisoned at Newcastle to the committee for common burdens]
- [Act of relief to the burghs of the sum of 150,000 guilders out of the brotherly assistance]
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16 November 1641
- [Supplication of Mr John Guthrie for release from his imprisonment]
- [Act regarding mortifications to colleges, schools and hospitals]
- [Supplication of John Grant of Moyness against the Laird of Glengarry]
- [Act prohibiting remissions granted without letters of assythment]
- [Supplication of the Earl of Montrose, Lord Napier, lairds of Keir and Blackhall for release from their imprisonment]
- [Supplication of Mr Alexander Colville of Blair for payment of arrears]
- [Warrant for the Earl of Crawford's release from prison]
- [Supplication of Lieutenant Colonel John Munro for release from his imprisonment]
- [Supplication of Captain William Stewart for a recommendation to the parliament of England]
- [Supplication of the Earl of Nithsdale against violations of his conditions of capitulation]
- [Supplication of Sir James Ramsay for reparation of his losses]
- [Supplication of Lord Sinclair for exoneration of his carriage]
- [Supplication of Sir William Dick of Braid for reparation of his losses]
- [Supplication of John Edmonston and James Sinclair against a protection to be granted to some commissioners of parliament]
- [Commission for justice courts in the north]
- [Commission for levying 120 men to assist the commissioners of justiciary in the north]
- [Act taking order with rebels and broken men]
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17 November 1641
- [Act regarding the prices of writs, seals and registers]
- [Supplication for relief of the British subjects in Ulster]
- [Act against the incarceration of poor people]
- [Supplication of Mr Alexander Pitcairn, minister at Tannadice, for reparation of his losses]
- [Supplication of George Foulis of Ravelston for exoneration of his carriage and payment of his arrears]
- [Supplication of Lord Forbes for reparation of his losses]
- [Act for two fairs to be held in the town of Jedburgh]
- [Extract of the act for two fairs to be held in the town of Jedburgh to be without exception]
- [Protestation of the burgh of Renfrew against the ratification to be granted to John Shaw of Greenock]
- [Protestation of the burgh of Renfrew against the ratification to be granted to the burgh of Glasgow]
- [Protestation of the burgh of Dumbarton, to be inserted in the burgh of Glasgow's ratification]
- [Protestation of Lord Almond against the ratification in favour of the kirk of Denny]
- [Ratification in favour of Sir William Forbes of Craigievar]
- [Protestation of Lord Maitland against the ratification in favour of the Earl of Home]
- [Protestation of the Marquis of Argyll against the ratification in favour of the Earl of Seaforth]
- [Act in favour of Sir James Galloway of ratification of the gift of nomination of clerk of the bills]
- [Act in favour of Sir James Galloway of ratification of the gift of nomination of commissary clerks and procurators fiscal]
- [Protestation for the parishioners of Auchtertool against the ratification to the beadsmen of Magdalene Chapel]
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1643, 22 June, Edinburgh, Convention
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Parliamentary Register
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Convention of estates held at Edinburgh, 22 June 1643
- Sederunt
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Procedure: protests over precedency
- Protestation [John Gordon], earl of Sutherland
- Protestation [Alexander Montgomery, earl of] Eglinton against [William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn
- Protestation [William Crichton, earl of] Dumfries etc. against [John Lindsay, earl of] Lindsay
- Protestation [James Livingstone, earl of] Callander against [Alexander Leslie, earl of] Leven
- [John Borthwick, lord] Borthwick against [John Hay, lord] Yester
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Procedure: disputed elections
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At Edinburgh, 23 June 1643
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At Edinburgh, 24 June 1643
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Edinburgh, 26 June 1643
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Edinburgh, 27 June 1643
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Edinburgh, 28 June 1643
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Edinburgh, 29 June 1643
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Edinburgh, 1 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 4 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 5 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 6 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 7 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 8 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 11 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 13 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 14 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 17 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 19 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 20 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 21 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 28 July 1643
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Edinburgh, 4 August 1643
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Committee Members: committee for the annuity
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Procedure: contracts for meal
- [Contract with] Robert Gordon for 900 bolls of meal
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Procedure: commission to James Ross
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Legislation
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Judicial Proceeding: against the laird of Haddo
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Judicial Proceeding: denunciation of the Lord Ogilvy
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Procedure: protection to the marquis of Huntly
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Edinburgh, 8 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 9 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 10 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 11 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 15 August 1643
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Procedure: report of James Hamilton's accounts
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Procedure: report of James Stewart's accounts
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Procedure: report of the marquis of Argyll's accounts
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Legislation
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Procedure: exoneration of committee
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Committee Members: addition to committee to meet with the English commissioners
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Declaration: from the English commissioners
- Procedure: commission to consider the English commissioners' declaration
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Edinburgh, 16 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 17 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 18 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 22 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 24 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 25 August 1643
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Edinburgh, 26 August 1643
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Declaration: the treaty with England
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Legislation
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Letter: to the officers of the Scottish army in Ireland
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Procedure: approbation of the conservers of the peace
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Declaration: of the convention to the English parliament
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Legislation
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Legislation
- Procedure: recommendation in favour of Archibald Primrose
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Procedure: appointment of the earl of Leven as lord general
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Procedure: prorogation of the convention
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Procedure: modification of the allowance of the commissioners sent to England
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Additional Sources
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1644, 3 January, Edinburgh, Convention
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Parliamentary Register
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Edinburgh, 3 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 4 January 1644
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5 January 1644
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6 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 8 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 9 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 11 January 1644
- Sederunt
- Procedure: recommendation to the committee of estates
- Order: to the troop of horse at Currie
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Legislation
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Procedure: remit to the committee for the excise
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Procedure: modification of the allowance of the commissioners sent to England
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Legislation
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Letter: to the officers of the army in Ireland
- Procedure: adjournment
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Edinburgh, 25 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 26 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 27 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 30 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 31 January 1644
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Edinburgh, 1 February 1644
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At Edinburgh, 2 February 1644
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Procedure: repayment of public debt to John Boswald
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Legislation
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Procedure: repayment of public debts
- Letter: to the English parliament
- Procedure: commission and instructions approved
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Committee Members: additions to committee of estates
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Procedure: quorum of the committee of estates
- Procedure: commissions to committee of estates approved
- Procedure: adjournment
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At Edinburgh, 10 April 1644
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Edinburgh, 11 April 1644
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Edinburgh, 12 April 1644
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Edinburgh, 14 April 1644
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Edinburgh, 15 April 1644
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Warrant: for arms and ammunition
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Warrant: for the Lord Sinclair's regiment to march
- Warrant: for arms and ammunition
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Warrant: for baggage horses, arms and ammunition
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Warrant: for troops to march
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Warrant: for baggage horses
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Legislation
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Procedure: adjudication of John Gordon of Haddo's lands and possessions
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Warrant: for arms and ammunition
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Edinburgh, 16 April 1644
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Warrant: for arms and ammunition
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Legislation
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Procedure: commission to John Denholm
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Warrant: for physicians to the army
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Legislation
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Procedure: commissions
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Committee Members: committee for the north
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Committee Members: committee for the south
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Committee Members: president of the committee for the north
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Procedure: appointment of a colonel for the Lanarkshire forces
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Committee Members: additions to committee of estates
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Procedure: appointment of a colonel for the Ayrshire and Renfrewshire forces
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Procedure: remit to committee
- Procedure: ratification of the proceedings of the committee of estates
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Committee Members: additions to committee of war in Lanarkshire
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Procedure: remit to committee
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Procedure: appointment of a colonel for the stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire
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Procedure: cessation of the power of the committee for the south
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Committee Members: additions to the committee of estates
- Procedure: remit to committee
- Orders: to the southern shires concerning the forces
- Procedure: adjournment
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At Edinburgh, 25 May 1644
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Edinburgh, 30 May 1644
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31 May 1644
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Edinburgh, 3 June 1644
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Procedure: ordering of the house
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Procedure: remit to parliament concerning Hartfell's and Amisfield's depositions
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Procedure: pass granted to William Johnston
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Procedure: remit to parliament concerning the earl of Callander's commission
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Procedure: copies of commissions
- Procedure: remit to parliament concerning the propositions of peace
- Procedure: adjournment
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Parliamentary Minutes
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Edinburgh, 10 April 1644
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11 April 1644
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14 April 1644
- [Pass to the earl of Morton; commissions approved; president of the committee sent to the north]
- [Additions to the membership of the committee of estates; earl of Lanark appointed colonel of the forces from Lanarkshire]
- [Rents of non-covenanters; ratification of the proceedings of the committee of estates and committees of war; additions to the membership of the committee of war in Lanarkshire]
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16 April 1644
- [Answers to the instructions from the Scottish army in Ireland recommended to committee of estates; nomination of colonel of the forces in Kirkcudbright and Wigtown]
- [Commission to the earl of Callander; supply of arms and ammunition; reply to the letter from the commissioners at London]
- [Committee sent to the north; cessation of the power of the committee sent to the south; additions to the membership of the committee of estates]
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Additional Sources
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1644, 4 June, Edinburgh, Parliament
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Parliamentary Register
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At Edinburgh, 4 June 1644
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5 June 1644
- Procedure
- Procedure: protests over precedency
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Procedure: ordering of the house
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Legislation
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Warrant: concerning the justice courts
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Procedure: commission for regulating all processes
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Committee Members: committee for the borrowing of money
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Committee Members: committee for the witnesses in the process against Lord Banff
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Committee Members: committee for the levy
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6 June 1644
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7 June 1644
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8 June 1644
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11 June 1644
- Procedure
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Legislation
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Procedure: commission to the lieutenant general
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Declaration: concerning the lieutenant general's commission
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Order: continuation of process
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Committee Members: committee for borrowing of money
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Order: in favour of the laird of Gight
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Legislation
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Proclamation: rendezvous of troops at Kelso
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Committee Members: committee for the propositions of peace
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Committee Members: committee for the commissions granted by the last parliament
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Committee Members: committee concerning the army in Ireland
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12 June 1644
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13 June 1644
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