• James VII: Translation
  
  • 1685, 23 April, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • [23 April 1685]
        
        • Procedure: opening of session
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: commission
        • Procedure: rolls called; protests over precedency
        • Procedure: order; parliament fenced
        • Procedure: oaths taken by members
        • Letter: from the king
        • Committee membership: reply to the king
        • Charter: patent presented, read and recorded
        • Committee membership: the articles and controverted elections
        • Procedure: title removed from rolls
        • Warrant: new election
        • Procedure: adjournment
      • At Edinburgh 28 April 1685
        
        • Procedure: rolls called; oaths taken
        • Procedure: committee reports and rulings on elections
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Procedure: ordering of the house
          
          • Additional act for ordering of the parliament house
        • Letter: to the king
        • Legislation
          
          • Act for security of the Protestant religion
        • Declaration
          
          • A declaration and offer of duty by the kingdom of Scotland, with an annexation of the excise to the crown
        • Procedure: dispensation for courts to sit during session
        • Procedure: adjournment
      • At Edinburgh 1 May 1685
        
        • Procedure: rolls called and oaths taken
      • At Edinburgh 6 May 1685
        
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act concerning citations in processes for treason
          • Act concerning witnesses in processes for treason
          • Act declaring it treason to take or own the covenants
          • Act obliging husbands to be liable for their wives' fines
          • Act anent [John] Porterfield of Duchal and concealing of supply given to rebels
      • At Edinburgh 8 May 1685
        
        • Warrant: new election
        • Procedure: decreet of precedency
          
          • Decreet of precedency in favour of [Patrick Lyon], earl of Strathmore
        • Procedure: protests over precedency
        • Procedure: committee report and decision on controverted election; oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act against preachers at conventicles and hearers at field conventicles
          • Act for the more effectual payment and bringing in of his majesty's rents and revenues
          • Act concerning judicial confessions before the commissioners of justiciary
          • Act obliging persons to accept offices
      • At Edinburgh 13 May 1685
        
        • Procedure: protests over precedency; oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act of supply
          • Act for taking the Test
        • Act explaining the ninth act of the parliament of 1669 concerning prescriptions
        • Act explaining the tenth act of the parliament of 1669 anent interruptions
        • Act anent justices of the peace
        • Act approving the sentence of forfeiture against Robert Hamilton, sometime of Monkland
        • Act ratifying and approving the late [Archibald Campbell], earl of Argyll's forfeiture
        • Act approving the sentence of forfeiture against Mr Robert Baillie, sometime of Jerviswood
        • Act in favour of George [MacKenzie], viscount of Tarbat for changing a highway
      • At Edinburgh 15 May 1685
        
        • Procedure: remit to the king
          
          • Remit from the parliament to the king's majesty concerning the earls [Robert Ker, earl of] Roxburghe and [Robert Kerr, earl of] Lothian
      • At Edinburgh 22 May 1685
        
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act for taking the oath of allegiance
          • Act concerning vacant stipends
          • Act ratifying the privileges of the senators of the college of justice and protest
      • At Edinburgh 30 May 1685
        
        • Legislation
          
          • Act for preserving game
          • Act against stealing of dogs and hawks
          • Act concerning tailzies
          • Act for a commission of trade
          • Act concerning trade and manufactories
      • At Edinburgh 2 June 1685
        
        • Legislation
          
          • Act ratifying the opinion of the lords of session anent those who refuse to depone anent the late treasonable proclamation
          • Act concerning adjudications for fines
          • Act ratifying two acts of parliament and a proclamation of council anent apprehending of rebels
          • Act concerning citations before circuit courts
          • Act for securing of sea passengers
          • Act ordaining that tenants be obliged by their tacks to live regularly
          • Act and commission for plantation of kirks and valuation of teinds
      • At Edinburgh 4 June 1685
        
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act approving the narrative of the Plot
          • Act concerning the militia
          • Act for poll-money
          • Act for security of the records
          • Act anent messengers' fees
          • Act for security of the officers of state and others
          • Act dissolving the barony of Tarbat from the shire of Ross
          • Act in favour of [Sir George MacKenzie of Rosehaugh], lord advocate
          • Act in favour of the burgh of Inverness for exacting a small custom at the bridge thereof
      • At Edinburgh 11 June 1685
        
        • Legislation
          
          • Act anent the address of the estates of parliament of his majesty's ancient kingdom of Scotland to his sacred majesty against the arch-traitor Archibald Campbell, sometime earl of Argyll
      • At Edinburgh 13 June 1685
        
        • Legislation
          
          • Act for the clergy
          • Act concerning the registration of writs in the books of session
          • Act for a commission anent the estate of the late earl of Argyll
          • Act in favour of planters and enclosers of ground
          • Act in favour of Sir William Bruce of Kinross for enlarging the shire of Kinross
      • At Edinburgh 16 June 1685
        
        • Legislation
          
          • Act declaring the Greenland fishing to be a manufactory
          • Act remitting the process of treason before the parliament to the justice court
          • Act of annexation of several lands to the crown and protest
          • Act reducing the conversion of the ancient feu duties of the estate of Argyll
          • Act of annexation of the offices belonging to the late [Archibald Campbell], earl of Argyll
          • Act in favour of the inhabitants of Orkney and Shetland
        • Committee membership: law commission
          
          • Commission for regulation of inferior judicatories
        • Legislation
          
          • Act in favour of [Archibald Graham], bishop of the Isles
          • Act for a standard of miles
          • Act for sowing peas and beans, and inhibiting the casting up of ground within the shire of Aberdeen
          • Act in favour of the children of Sir William Primrose
          • Act in favour of Sir Peter Fraser
          • Act in favour of [David Erskine], laird of Dun
          • Act in favour of the town of Dalkeith
          • Act in favour of the town of Linlithgow
          • Act in favour of the burgh of Inverness
          • Act in favour of the burgh of Aberdeen
        • Charters: ratifications
          
          • Ratification in favour of [George Gordon], duke of Gordon and protest
          • Ratification in favour of [Charles Erskine], earl of Mar
          • Ratification in favour of [William Graham], earl of Menteith
          • Ratification in favour [George MacKenzie], viscount of Tarbat
          • Ratification in favour of [George MacKenzie], viscount of Tarbat
          • Ratification in favour of [George MacKenzie], viscount of Tarbat
          • Ratification in favour of the royal college of physicians (abstract) and protest
          • Ratification in favour of Mr Roderick MacKenzie
          • Ratification in favour of [Robert Carnegie], earl of Southesk
          • Ratification in favour of Hugh Wallace of Ingliston
          • Ratification in favour of Mr John Richardson and John Drummond and protest
          • Ratification in favour of Aeneas MacLeod
          • Ratification in favour of Sir Robert Laurie
          • Ratification in favour of Duncan Toshach
          • Ratification in favour of Colonel James Douglas and Robert Barton
          • Ratification in favour of the apothecaries of Edinburgh and protest
          • Ratification in favour of Christopher Irvine, doctor of medicine
          • Ratification in favour of Colonel David Barclay and his son
          • Ratification in favour of the trades of Edinburgh and protest
          • Ratification in favour of the bonnet-makers and litsters of Edinburgh and protest
          • Ratification in favour of the burgh of Inverness
          • Ratification in favour of John Scott of Comeston
          • Ratification in favour of James Milne [of Balwyllo]
          • Ratification in favour of Mr David Dewar of Muirton, advocate
          • Ratification in favour of Donald MacDonald of Moidart
          • Ratification in favour of Sir William Bruce of Kinross
          • Ratification in favour of Sir John Murray of Drumcairn
          • Ratification in favour of Alexander Irvine of Drum
          • Ratification in favour of Sir George MacKenzie, his majesty's advocate
          • Ratification in favour of James Calder of Muirton and protest
          • Ratification in favour of the bakers of Edinburgh and protest
          • Ratification in favour of Mr David Graham, tutor of Gorthy
          • Ratification in favour of the town of Cromarty
          • Ratification in favour of Mr Roderick MacKenzie of Dalvennan
          • Ratification in favour of John Lauder of Fountainhall and Sir John Lauder, his son
          • Ratification in favour of John Gordon of Rothiemay
          • Ratification in favour of John Hamilton of Barncluith
        • Warrants: markets and fairs
          
          • Warrant to William [Douglas], duke of Queensberry for four yearly fairs at Ecclefechan
          • Warrant to [William Douglas], duke of Hamilton for two yearly fairs at the Kirk o'Shotts
          • Warrant to [John Hay], earl of Erroll for two yearly fairs at the meikle town of Slains
          • Warrant to [Colin Lindsay], earl of Balcarres for two yearly fairs at Colinsburgh
          • Warrant to [Walter Sandilands], lord Torphichen for three yearly fairs at Calder and West Calder
          • Warrant to Sir Alexander Jardine for four yearly fairs at Applegarth
          • Warrant to the burgh of Dingwall for two yearly fairs
          • Warrant to Alexander Innes of Cockston for three yearly fairs at Longbryde
          • Warrant to James Caddell of Muirton for two yearly fairs at Blackstob
          • Warrant to Mr Roderick MacKenzie of Prestonhall for two yearly fairs there
          • Warrant to [Hugh Fraser], lord Lovat for a yearly fair at the muir of Lovat and a weekly market at Beauly
          • Warrant to Alexander Udny of that ilk for three yearly fairs at the kirkton thereof
          • Warrant to [Hugh Rose], laird of Kilravock for two yearly fairs
          • Warrant to [James Douglas], marquis of Douglas for two yearly fairs at Douglas
          • Warrant to Mr Roderick MacKenzie for two yearly fairs at Dalvennan
        • Procedure: list of justices of the peace
          
          • Follows the list of the justices of peace within the respective shires of the kingdom of Scotland
        • Legislation
          
          • Act salvo jure cujuslibet
          • Act of adjournment
    • Parliamentary Minutes
      
      • Copy minutes of parliament held at Edinburgh, 23 April 1685
        
        • [Master sederunt]
        • [Sederunt]
        • [Opening of session; protests over precedency]
        • [Parliament fenced; oaths taken; king's letter read]
        • [Speeches made; patent read]
        • [Committees appointed]
        • [Title expunged; warrant for new election]
        • [Continuation]
      • 28 April 1685
        
        • [Oaths taken; controverted elections; reports read]
        • [Oaths taken; act read; draft letter approved]
        • [Acts approved; summons of exculpation; courts allowed to meet]
        • [Continuation]
      • 1 May 1685
        
        • [Oaths taken; acts approved; continuation]
      • 6 May 1685
        
        • [Oaths taken; acts approved; continuation]
      • 8 May 1685
        
        • [Warrant for new election; reports read]
        • [Acts approved; act laid aside]
        • [Addition to committee membership; continuation]
      • 13 May 1685
        
        • [Protest over precedency; oaths taken; act approved; act given royal assent]
        • [Acts approved and given royal assent; report read; continuation]
      • 15 May 1685
        
        • [Report remitted to king; treason processes read and debated]
        • [Treason processes remitted; exemption from militia rendezvous; continuation]
      • 22 May 1685
        
        • [Oaths taken; act approved; papers for consultation]
        • [Treason processes read, debated and approved]
        • [Act approved; treason processes read, debated and approved]
        • [Acts approved; protest against]
        • [Treason process to be brought in; continuation]
      • 27 May 1685
        
        • [Acts approved; act remitted; proposals sought]
        • [Treason process read, debated and approved]
        • [Continuation]
      • 30 May 1685
        
        • [Acts approved; commissioners nominated; continuation]
      • 2 June 1685
        
        • [Acts approved and given royal assent; continuation]
      • 4 June 1685
        
        • [Oaths taken; act approved]
        • [Treason process read, debated and approved]
        • [Acts approved]
        • [Acts delayed; continuation]
      • 8 June 1685
        
        • [Acts approved; continuation]
      • 11 June 1685
        
        • [Draft address read; acts approved; act delayed]
        • [Continuation]
      • 13 June 1685
        
        • [Treason processes read, debated and approved]
        • [Acts and ratifications approved; continuation]
      • 16 June 1685
        
        • [Acts and ratifications approved and given royal assent; protests against; act delayed]
        • [Speech made; parliament adjourned]
    • Committee Minutes and Proceedings: lords of the articles
      
      • 24 April 1685
        
        • [Act approved and ordered to be presented; ordering of the house; warrant granted to raise processes of forfeiture]
        • [Warrant granted to raise summons of exculpation; dispensation for justice courts]
        • [Subcommittee appointed to examine records of parliament; guard in parliament close; continuation]
      • 27 April 1685
        
        • [Draft reply to king's letter approved and ordered to be presented; act approved and remitted to subcommittee; continuation]
      • 28 April 1685
        
        • [Addition to orders of the house; act approved and ordered to be presented; warrant granted for advocates to plead]
        • [Witnesses in treason processes; summons of exculpation; subcommittee concerning the privileges of office appointed]
      • 29 April 1685
        
        • [Further consideration of acts ordered; act laid open]
        • [Petitions read and laid open for consultation; subcommittee for the act of excise appointed]
      • 30 April 1685
        
        • [Act read and laid aside; act read and subcommittee for tailzies appointed]
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented]
      • 1 May 1685
        
        • [Petition laid open for consultation; further consideration of act ordered]
        • [Advocate allowed to plead; further consideration of bill ordered]
      • 4 May 1685
        
        • [Report of subcommittee for the excise; proclamation of privy council to be considered]
        • [Act read, amended and further consideration ordered; further consideration of overture ordered]
        • [Act read and amendments ordered; subcommittee for intercommuning with rebels appointed; bills for exculpation remitted to subcommittee]
        • [Subcommittee ordered to be meet; petition laid open for consultation; warrant granted]
      • 5 May 1685
        
        • [Report read and partly granted; further consideration of clause ordered; protestation submitted]
        • [Treason process read and delayed; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Petition laid open for consultation; witness examined; warrant granted]
      • 6 May 1685
        
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented; subcommittee for trade and the mint appointed; act remitted to subcommittee]
        • [Subcommittee for the regulation of judiciaries appointed; witnesses in treason processes]
        • [Subcommittee concerning the earls of Strathmore and Lothian's precedency appointed]
      • 7 May 1685
        
        • [Act remitted to the clergy; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Act laid open; further consideration of act ordered; register laid open]
      • 8 May 1685
        
        • [Report and acts approved and ordered to be presented; addition to subcommittee membership]
        • [Committees ordered to meet; process laid open for consultation]
      • 11 May 1685
        
        • [Further consideration of act ordered; act remitted to subcommittee; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
      • 12 May 1686
        
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented; subcommittee for the supply appointed]
        • [Petition read and delayed; order of business]
        • [Warrant granted; controverted election remitted to committee]
      • 13 May 1685
        
        • [Subcommittee concerning Thomas Moodie's mortification appointed]
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented; petition remitted]
      • 14 May 1685
        
        • [Petition read, debated and refused]
        • [Subcommittee appointed to consider process against the earl of Leven; warrant granted; petition read and delayed]
      • 15 May 1685
        
        • [Report approved and ordered to be presented; petition remitted to committee]
      • 18 May 1685
        
        • [Continuation]
      • 19 May 1685
        
        • [Warrant granted to raise process of treason; defences submitted]
        • [Treason process debated and witnesses examined; submission of defences; act approved and ordered to be presented]
      • 20 May 1685
        
        • [Treason process debated and witnesses examined; article of libel approved]
        • [Article of libel approved; witnesses examined]
      • 21 May 1685
        
        • [Act laid open; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Petition laid open for consultation; warrant granted; further consideration of act ordered]
        • [Petition read and delayed; petitions refused]
      • 22 May 1685
        
        • [Act approved and ordered to be presented; subcommittee for apprehending traitors appointed]
      • 25 May 1685
        
        • [Report remitted to subcommittee; act read and amendments ordered; act approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Subcommittee for fines and apprehending traitors appointed; commission remitted to subcommittee]
        • [Act approved and ordered to be presented; commission for plantation of kirks and valuation of teinds laid open]
        • [Treason process debated and approved; act and treason processes laid open]
      • 27 May 1685
        
        • [Act approved; libel approved; witnesses examined]
      • 30 May 1685
        
        • [Subcommittee for fines to consider act; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
      • 1 June 1685
        
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented; further consideration of acts ordered]
        • [Further consideration of commission ordered; act and overture laid aside]
        • [Warrant granted; addition to subcommittee membership; petition read and laid aside]
      • 2 June 1685
        
        • [Commission and act approved and ordered to be presented; subcommittee for revising ratifications appointed]
        • [Petition granted; act approved and ordered to be presented; act read and laid aside]
        • [Addition to subcommittee membership; process delayed]
      • 3 June 1685
        
        • [Treason process debated and approved; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Further consideration of acts ordered; act read and delayed]
        • [Act read and remitted; act approved and ordered to be presented; treason process delayed]
      • 4 June 1685
        
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented; petitions read and laid aside]
      • 5 June 1685
        
        • [Treason processes debated and libels found proved; warrant granted]
      • 8 June 1685
        
        • [Process heard and laid aside; petition refused; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
      • 9 June 1685
        
        • [Petition granted; petition remitted to privy council; acts approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Further consideration ordered of address to king; treason process heard, debated and approved]
      • 10 June 1685
        
        • [Subcommittee for the royal burghs appointed; act laid aside; act approved]
        • [Advocate appointed to assist lord advocate; interlocutors submitted]
      • 11 June 1685
        
        • [Address to the king and act approved and ordered to be presented]
      • 12 June 1685
        
        • [Process remitted to session; act approved; subcommittee for the weighing of barley and meal and making of malt appointed]
        • [Acts and commission approved and ordered to be presented; subcommittee for the privileges of burghs appointed]
        • [Confessions submitted and assurance of life given]
      • 13 June 1685
        
        • [Mistake in minutes of process rectified; act approved and ordered to be presented; witnesses examined]
      • 15 June 1685
        
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented]
        • [Petition laid open for consultation; petitions granted]
      • 16 June 1685
        
        • [Acts approved and ordered to be presented; petition refused]
    • Additional Sources
      
      • 15 May 1685
        
        • [Minutes in the processes of forfeiture before parliament against Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, George Pringle of Torwoodlee and Mr Robert Martin]
        • [Deposition of Commissary Alexander Munro]
        • [Deposition of Mr William Carstairs]
        • [Depositions of witnesses against Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree concerning his demanding of supply to the late earl of Argyll]
        • [Deposition of the earl of Tarras before his majesty's commissioner]
        • [Deposition of Hugh Scott of Galashiels]
        • [Deposition of witnesses to prove Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree's accession to the conspiracy]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, George Pringle of Torwoodlee and Robert Martin]
      • 27 May 1685
        
        • [Minutes in the process of forfeiture before parliament against Thomas Stewart of Coltness]
        • [Deposition of witnesses against Thomas Stewart of Coltness]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against Thomas Stewart of Coltness]
        • [Interlocutor finding the libel relevant against Thomas Stewart of Coltness]
        • [Sentence of forfeiture against Thomas Stewart of Coltness]
      • 4 June 1685
        
        • [Minutes in the process of treason before parliament against Mr Robert Ferguson, late chaplain to the deceased earl of Shaftesbury]
        • [Depositions of witnesses against Mr Robert Ferguson]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against Mr Robert Ferguson, late chaplain to the deceased earl of Shaftesbury]
        • [Interlocutor finding the libel relevant against Mr Robert Ferguson]
        • [Sentence of forfeiture against Mr Robert Ferguson]
      • 13 June 1685
        
        • [Minutes in the processes of forfeiture before parliament against Lord Melville, the lairds of Cessnock and David Montgomery of Lainshaw]
        • [Depositions against the Lord Melville]
        • [Deposition of Commissary Munro against Lord Melville and David Montgomery of Lainshaw]
        • [Minutes in the articles against the Lord Melville and David Montgomery of Lainshaw; Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock's deposition]
        • [Depositions of Commissary Munro against the lairds of Cessnock]
        • [Confessions of the lairds of Cessnock, elder and younger]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against Lord Melville]
        • [Sentence of forfeiture against Lord Melville]
        • [Interlocutor of parliament finding the libel proven against Lord Melville]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against David Montgomery of Lainshaw]
        • [Sentence of forfeiture against David Montgomery of Lainshaw]
        • [Interlocutor finding the libel proven against David Montgomery of Lainshaw]
        • [Decreet of forfeiture against Sir Hugh and Sir George Campbell of Cessnock]
        • [Sentence of forfeiture against Sir Hugh and Sir George Campbell of Cessnock]
        • [Interlocutor sustaining the libel against the lairds of Cessnock]
  • 1686, 29 April, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • [29 April 1686]
        
        • Procedure: opening of session
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: commission read and recorded
        • Procedure: rolls read; protests over precedency
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Letter: from the king
        • Procedure: speech
        • Committee membership: lords of the articles; elections and reply to the king
        • Procedure: adjournment
      • At Edinburgh 6 May 1686
        
        • Procedure: rolls called; committee report on election read
        • Warrant: electors to be prosecuted
        • Procedure: letter read, debated and approved
        • Letter: to the king
        • Procedure: adjournment
      • At Edinburgh 11 May 1686
        
        • Procedure: rolls; dispensation granted
      • At Edinburgh 18 May 1686
        
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act of dissolution of the lands of Cessnock and Duchal
          • Act of dissolution of the lands of Ochiltree from the crown
      • At Edinburgh 21 May 1686
        
        • Procedure: dispensation
      • At Edinburgh 26 May 1686
        
        • Procedure: oaths taken
        • Legislation
          
          • Act for bringing in of his majesty's supply
          • Act ordaining interlocutors to be subscribed by the judges
          • Act ordaining all executions to be subscribed by the witnesses
          • Act appointing the diets of the session
          • Act for the Christmas vacation
          • Act dissolving the lands of Earlston, Craichlaw and Caitloch from the crown
          • Act for rebuilding the bridge of Ugie
      • At Edinburgh 28 May 1686
        
        • Procedure: commissioners of supply appointed
          
          • Act adding commissioners for supply for the shires of Ayr, Dunbarton and Caithness
        • Legislation
          
          • Act of dissolution of the lands and barony of Torwoodlee in favour of Lieutenant General [William] Drummond [of Cromlix]
          • Act of dissolution of the lands of Grange from [the crown] in favour of Sir Thomas Kennedy, lord provost of Edinburgh
          • Act anent highways and bridges
      • At Edinburgh 2 June 1686
        
        • Procedure: oaths taken
      • At Edinburgh 4 June 1686
        
        • Procedure: commissioners of supply appointed
          
          • Act adding commissioners of supply and justices of peace in the shires of Fife and Perth
        • Legislation
          
          • Act in favour of Sir Alexander Gibson
      • At Edinburgh 8 June 1686
        
        • Legislation
          
          • Act dissolving from the crown forfeited lands which held of other superiors than the king
          • Act of annexation of the baronies of Muirhall and Melfort to the crown
          • Act in favour of [Anne Hamilton], duchess of Hamilton
          • Act of dissolution in favour of [George Gordon], duke of Gordon
          • Act ordaining pursuers to furnish the act to the defenders whereon they are to depone
          • Act for winter herding
          • Act for cleansing the streets of Edinburgh
      • At Edinburgh 14 June 1686
        
        • Procedure: conveners of supply appointed
          
          • Act appointing [Alexander Stewart], earl of Moray and [Charles Stewart], lord Doune conveners of the commissioners of supply in the shire of Inverness
        • Legislation
          
          • Act of dissolution of the lands of Coltness, North Berwick and Goodtrees in favour of [James Douglas], earl of Arran
          • Act of dissolution in favour of the late [Walter Scott], earl of Tarras
          • Act prohibiting the importing of Irish victual and cattle
          • Act declaring that inhibitions shall not be prejudged by recognition
          • Act for burying in Scots linen
          • Act for writing sasines by way of book
          • Act appointing publication of the testimonies of witnesses
        • Committee membership: law commission
          
          • Commission for regulation of judicatories
        • Legislation
          
          • Act of reference to the council anent allowing importation of prohibited goods
          • Act anent registration of sasines and reversions
          • Act and commission for plantation of kirks and valuation of teinds
          • Act anent nomination of clerks to the justices of peace
          • Act rescinding a former act annexing lands in Ross-shire to Cromarty
          • Act in favour of John Adair
          • Act anent the mint
      • At Edinburgh 15 June 1686
        
        • Procedure: protest over precedency
        • Legislation
          
          • Act rescinding a commission granted anent the estate of Argyll
          • Act rescinding a clause in the address made by the parliament against the late earl of Argyll
          • Act anent the measure of bark
          • Act rescinding an act entitled, act for security of the records
          • Act in favour of John Meikle, founder
          • Act in favour of Mr Walter Birnie
          • Act in favour of Robert Cunningham of Auchinharvie for uplifting four pennies Scots out of each pint of beer and ale within the parishes of Stevenson and Ardrossan
          • Act in favour of George [Gordon], duke of Gordon
        • Procedure: additional commissioners of supply appointed
          
          • Act adding commissioners for supply in the shires of Edinburgh, Forfar, Selkirk, Kincardine, Roxburgh, Peebles, Berwick and the stewartry of Kirkcudbright
        • Legislation
          
          • Act in favour of the six macers
        • Warrant
          
          • Warrant for a bore brieve to Charles Colbert, marquis of Seignelay
        • Charters: ratifications
          
          • Ratification in favour of [George Gordon], duke of Gordon
          • Ratification in favour of [James Drummond], earl of Perth
          • Ratification in favour of [Anne Scott], duchess of Buccleuch
          • Ratification disjoining the five parishes of Eskdale from the shire of Dumfries, and annexing the same to the shire of Roxburgh
          • Ratification in favour of Charles [Middleton], earl of Middleton
          • Ratification in favour of [George Douglas], earl of Dunbarton
          • Ratification in favour of [John Drummond], viscount of Melfort
          • Ratification in favour of [John Drummond], viscount of Melfort
          • Ratification in favour of [George MacKenzie], viscount of Tarbat
          • Ratification in favour of General [William] Drummond [of Cromlix]
          • Ratification in favour of [David Ross], laird of Balnagown
          • Ratification in favour of Sir James Stewart of Bute
          • Ratification in favour of Sir Colin Campbell of Aberuchill
          • Ratification in favour of Sir Archibald Cockburn of Langton
          • Ratification in favour of Sir Thomas Kennedy
          • Ratification in favour of Sir Charles Stewart and Sir William Kerr
          • Ratification in favour of Sir John Gordon, advocate
          • Ratification in favour of Hugh MacLeod of Cambuscurrie
          • Ratification in favour of John Reid of Barra
          • Ratification in favour of George Keith of Creichie
          • Ratification in favour of James Urquhart of Knockleith
          • Ratification in favour of Lady Mary Bruce and William Cochrane
          • Ratification in favour of James Caddell of Muirton of a charter under the great seal of the lands of Tulloch Blairie and others contained in a charter
          • Ratification of an act of privy council for repairing the cathedral kirk of Dornoch
          • Ratification of the lands and barony of Balcomie in favour of Mr William Gordon, advocate, of a charter under the great seal
          • Ratification of the lands and barony of Invernetty of a signature bearing a change of holding in favour of [Stewart], laird of Invernetty
          • Ratification of the decreets of forfeiture against John Lockhart of Bankhead, Mr Matthew Campbell of Waterhaughs, and others
          • Ratification in favour of Robert Milne, his majesty's master mason of an act of the town council of Edinburgh
          • Ratification of the lands and barony of Otter in favour of Mr Alexander MacLean of Otter proceeding upon the forfeiture of Alexander Campbell, late of Otter
          • Ratification in favour of Captain Edward Bird of an act of his majesty's privy council for building a bridge upon the water of Tyne and uplifting the customs thereof
          • Ratification in favour of Sir Thomas Stewart of Grandtully, proceeding upon a signature under his majesty's royal hand of the lands and barony of [Strathbraan]
        • Warrants: markets and fairs
          
          • Warrant for [James Douglas], marquis of Douglas for two yearly fairs at Killiemuir
          • Warrant for George Ross of Morangie for two yearly fairs and a weekly market at Inverbreakie
          • Warrant for Sir Colin Campbell of Aberuchill for four yearly fairs
          • Warrant to the laird of MacIntosh for seven free fairs
          • Warrant to [John Campbell], earl of Breadalbane for six free fairs yearly
          • Warrant for two yearly fairs and a weekly market to [Sir Robert] Dunbar of Grangehill
          • Warrant for Sir George Gordon of Edinglassie for two free yearly fairs and a weekly market
          • Warrant for Patrick [Lyon], earl of Strathmore for four free fairs in the year
          • Warrant for Sir James Caddell of Muirton for one free fair yearly and a weekly market
          • Warrant to [James Ogilvy], earl of Airlie for two free fairs in the year
          • Warrant for [John Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh for two free fairs and a weekly market
          • Warrant for [Henry Sinclair], lord Sinclair for a yearly fair and weekly market
          • Warrant for Sir James Carnegie of Finavon for two free fairs yearly and a weekly market
          • Warrant for the town of Dunfermline for two free fairs yearly and a weekly market
          • Warrant for John Carruthers of Holmains for three free fairs yearly and a weekly market
          • Warrant for William Leckie of Dasher for three free fairs yearly with a weekly market
          • Warrant for [Fraser], laird of Strichen for two free fairs yearly with a weekly market
          • Warrant for two free fairs in favour of George [Gordon], duke of Gordon
          • Warrant in favour of George [Gordon], duke of Gordon for thirteen free yearly fairs and two weekly markets
          • Warrant for two yearly free fairs in favour of James [Drummond], earl of Perth
          • Warrant for two yearly fairs in favour of [George MacKenzie], viscount of Tarbat on the last Tuesday of October
        • Legislation
          
          • Act salvo jure cujuslibet
          • Act of adjournment