• Mary I: Translation
  
  • 1543, 12 March, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 12 March 1543
        
        • Procedure: opening of parliament
        • Procedure
        • Judicial proceeding: summons of treason
      • 13 March 1543
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Sederunt
        • Committee members: articles, causes and dooms
        • Declaration: appointment of the Earl of Arran as second person of the realm and governor to Mary Queen of Scots during her minority
        • Procedure
        • Commission: instructions to the Scottish ambassadors with the English concerning peace and the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots
          
          • The instructions to the ambassadors to be sent to the King of England for contracting of peace and marriage etc., be extended at large
      • Fourth day of parliament, namely 15 March 1542 [1543]
        
        • Procedure: extracting of acts
        • Declaration
        • Legislation: private acts
          
          • Lord Stewart of Ochiltree
          • Lord Stewart of Ochiltree
          • Laird of Buccleuch
          • Lord Glamis and the treasurer
        • Committee members: privy council
        • Procedure: household arrangements for the queen
        • Legislation: private act
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: extracting of processes of forfeiture
        • Judicial proceeding: reduction of forfeitures
        • Procedure: asking of instruments
        • Judicial proceeding: reduction of forfeitures
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
        • Procedure: establishment of parliament as a 'running parliament' under the authority of the lords of the articles
        • Procedure: taking of instruments
        • Procedure: ratification of the constitution of the college of justice and seat of session
        • Judicial proceeding: forfeited persons relaxed from the horn
        • Procedure: payment of the necessary expenses of the lord governor
        • Judicial proceeding: protest; instruments taken
        • Legislation: private act
        • Judicial proceeding: reductions of forfeitures extracted; instruments taken
        • Judicial proceeding: reduction of summons of forfeitures
        • Procedure: remit and continuation of summons
        • Judicial proceeding: protest; asking of instruments
        • Legislation
      • At Edinburgh, 8 June 1543
        
        • Sederunt: lords of the articles
        • Procedure: lords of the articles' decision concerning the proposed articles of peace with England and marriage of Mary Queen of Scots
          
          • The answers made by us, James [Hamilton], earl of Arran, tutor to the queen's grace, protector and governor of the realm and Scotland and second person of the same, with the advice of the lords of our council, to the memorial brought by Sir George Douglas [of Pittendreich] from [Henry VIII], the king's majesty of England, both concerning the marriage of our sovereign lady, the queen's grace, of Scotland, with Prince Edward [Tudor] of England, and the treaty of peace
    • Additional Source
      
      • 15 March 1543
        
        • Letters: declaring the Earl of Arran to be second person of the realm
      • 4 May 1543
        
        • Letter: appointing ambassadors to Henry VIII to treat for marriage
  • 1543, 3 December, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 3 December 1543
        
        • Procedure: opening of parliament
        • Procedure: swearing of oaths
      • 4 December 1543
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Sederunt
        • Committee members: lords of the articles
        • Committee members: lords elected to the causes and falsing of dooms
        • Judicial proceeding: curators appointed; protests
        • Judicial proceeding: continuation of summons
      • Fourth day of parliament, namely 8 December 1543
        
        • Sederunt: lords of the articles
        • Judicial proceeding: summons of treason
          
          • Cancelled by mandate of [James Hamilton, earl of Arran], lord governor
      • 9 December 1543
        
        • Sederunt: lords of the articles
        • Declaration
      • 10 December 1543
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: appointment of curators
        • Judicial proceeding: continuation of summons
        • Procedure: protests; asking of instruments
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: supplication read and granted
        • Procedure: protests; asking of instruments
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
      • 11 December 1543
        
        • Procedure
        • Legislation: renunciation of the treaties of Greenwich
        • Procedure: confirmation of the ancient league and amity between France and Scotland
        • Commission: to renew the contract of amity and aid with France
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: supplication
        • Procedure: asking of instruments
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Judicial proceeding: protests; asking of instruments
        • Legislation: private act
        • Judicial proceeding: protests; asking of instruments
        • Judicial proceeding: reductions of forfeiture
        • Procedure: resignation of lands
        • Judicial proceeding: reduction of forfeiture
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: appointment of members to the great council; oaths taken
        • Procedure: discharge to William, earl of Montrose and John, lord Erskine from other duties whilst protecting Mary Queen of Scots
      • 13 December 1543
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: surrender of the castle of Kirkwall ordered
        • Procedure: acceptance of office of chancellor
        • Procedure: submission of summons to arbitrators
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • 15 December 1543
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Sederunt
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: acts published and pronounced
        • Legislation: private act
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • 18 February 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • 28 March 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Judicial proceeding: continuation of summons
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
  • 1544, 6 November, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 6 November 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure
      • 7 November 1544
        
        • Sederunt
        • Committee members: articles, dooms and causes
        • Judicial proceeding: presentation of endorsed summons
        • Procedure: pretended parliament declared unlawful
        • Judicial proceeding: production of summons of treason
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: declaration of a running parliament
        • Procedure: appointment of Thomas Kincraigie as queen's advocate depute
      • 8 November 1544
        
        • Procedure
        • Procedure: delegation to be sent to Stirling
        • Procedure: declaration of the estates
        • Order: for mustering the lieges at Edinburgh
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 17 November 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 24 November 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 26 November 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 27 November 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 12 December 1544
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Judicial proceeding: summons of treason; asking of instruments
        • Procedure: right of jurisdiction of the lord high admiral
        • Judicial proceeding: continuation of decreet of lord high admiral
        • Procedure: remission granted
        • Judicial proceeding: reduction of treason processes
  • 1545, 26 June, Stirling, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • At Stirling, 26 June 1545
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: proposition from Seigneur de Lorges for French assistance against the English
        • Procedure: appointment of war commissioners
      • 27 June 1545
        
        • Procedure
        • Procedure: renunciation of acts
      • 28 June 1545
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: acceptance of French assistance against the English
      • At Stirling, 29 June 1545
        
        • Procedure
        • Procedure: approval of act
        • Procedure: appointment of council members
        • Legislation
  • 1545, 2 September, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 2 September 1545
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
        • Procedure: protest
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 9 September 1545
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
        • Procedure: protest
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
  • 1545, 28 September, Linlithgow/Edinburgh, Parliament (continued)
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • Linlithgow, 28 September 1545
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason; protests
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • Linlithgow, 1 October 1545
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: appointment of the dempster
        • Procedure: protests and determinations thereon
        • Judicial proceeding: summons of treason
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • Linlithgow, 2 October 1545
        
        • Sederunt
        • Legislation
      • Linlithgow, 3 October 1545
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: payment of mercenaries
        • Order: to the collectors of the taxation
        • Procedure: Lord Fleming absolved
      • At Linlithgow, 4 October 1545
        
        • Declaration: bond of assurance
        • Order: for payment of tax arrears
        • Procedure: payment of mercenaries
        • Declaration: bond of assurance
        • Procedure
      • At Linlithgow, 5 October 1545
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: mustering of troops
        • Procedure: collection of tax
        • Procedure: keeping of the queen
        • Order: for collection of taxation
      • At Linlithgow, 6 October 1545
        
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • Linlithgow, 1 December 1545
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • Linlithgow, 19 December 1545
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • Edinburgh, 3 February 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • Edinburgh, 4 February 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Judicial proceeding: summons of treason; asking of instruments; protest
        • Legislation: private act
        • Judicial proceeding: summons of treason
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
        • Procedure: continuation of parliament
      • Edinburgh, 15 March 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: declaration that parliament is to be a running parliament
      • Edinburgh, 6 April 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
      • Edinburgh, 24 May 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
  • 1546, 5 June, Stirling, Council & Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • At Stirling, 5 June 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: nomination and acceptance of the Earl of Huntly as chancellor
      • 10 June 1546
        
        • Procedure: appointment and rotation of the privy council
      • At Stirling, 11 June 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: convening the council
        • Procedure: delivery of the house of Lochmaben to Lord Maxwell
        • Legislation
        • Judicial proceeding: Laird of Drumelzier relaxed from the horn
        • Procedure: asking of instruments
        • Procedure: ratification of dissolution of the peace and queen's contract of marriage
  • 1546, 1 July, Edinburgh, Parliament (continuation)
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 1 July 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
      • 3 July 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
        • Procedure: protest
      • 30 July 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: fencing of the running parliament
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
        • Procedure: repledgiation of accused in treason process
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 4 August 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 7 August 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
        • Procedure: production of an alleged decreet from the pope
        • Procedure: continuation of summons
      • 9 August 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: admission of papal bull and pardon; protest
        • Procedure: concerning the remission to Norman Leslie and others for the murder of David Beaton
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
      • 13 August 1546
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
      • 14 August 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Committee members: lords of the articles
        • Procedure: discharge granted
        • Procedure: concerning the remission to Norman Leslie and others for the murder of David Beaton
        • Legislation: tax to finance the siege of St Andrews Castle
        • Procedure: protests; asking of instruments
        • Legislation
          
          • Articles to be sent to the King of France and to his ambassadors being in England
        • Legislation: private act
        • Procedure: protests
        • Procedure: protests against possible prejudices incurred through treason process
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: asking of instruments; continuation of summons of treason
        • Judicial proceeding: sentence of forfeiture
        • Judicial proceeding: continuation of summons
      • 16 August 1546
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: regarding production of an alleged decreet from the pope; protests
        • Judicial proceeding: sentence of forfeiture
        • Procedure: regarding the use of an alleged decreet from the pope
    • Additional Source
      
      • 13 February 1547
        
        • Letter: narrating confirmation by the queen, with parliament's consent, of an article in the recent treaty with Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England
  • 1547, 18 March, Edinburgh, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • At Edinburgh, 18 March 1547
        
        • Sederunt
        • Committee members: privy council
  • 1547, 8 September, Monktonhall, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • At Monktonhall, 8 September 1547
        
        • Legislation
  • 1547, 16 October, Edinburgh, Convention
    
    • Additional Sources
  • 1548, February, Stirling, Convention
    
    • Additional Sources
  • 1548, 12 May, Edinburgh, Parliamentary Commission
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 12 May 1548
        
        • Procedure: continuation
  • 1548, 12 June, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 12 June 1548
        
        • Procedure: preamble and sederunt
        • Procedure: continuation of summons of treason
  • 1548, 7 July, Haddington, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 7 July 1548
        
        • Legislation: treaty of Haddington
  • 1549, 3 July, Edinburgh, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • At Edinburgh, 3 July 1549
        
        • Legislation
          
          • [Act for the defence of the realm and a tax of £35,000 granted]
  • 1551, 29 May, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • Legislation
        
        • Against those who sustain the process of cursing for the space of one year, of communicates being excommunicated, chapter 6
        • Concerning favourers of declared traitors of bearers of feud for slaughter committed upon them, chapter 7
        • Regarding those that shoot with guns at deer and wild fowl, chapter 8
  • 1552, 1 February, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • Legislation
        
        • Regarding the price of wines, chapter 10
        • Of the prices of wild and tame meats, chapter 11
        • The articles and points concluded on assured Scots with Englishmen, chapter 12
        • The second article on assured persons, chapter 13
        • The third article on assured persons, chapter 14
        • The declaration of my lord Angus, chapter 15
        • The act concerning those who swear abominable oaths, chapter 16
        • Concerning those who perturb the kirk at the time of divine service, chapter 17
        • Concerning those who know themselves to be under the process of cursing, chapter 18
        • Concerning cursed persons who compel priests to say mass in their presence, chapter 19
        • Concerning those who marry two wives or husbands, chapter 20
        • Concerning adulterers, chapter 21
        • Concerning maltmakers, chapter 22
        • Concerning ferrymen, chapter 23
        • Concerning the slaughter of lambs and young rabbits, chapter 24
        • Concerning beggars, chapter 25
        • Concerning false notaries, chapter 26
        • Concerning craftsmen, chapter 27
        • Concerning the examination of notaries, chapter 28
        • Concerning the slaying of hares, chapter 29
        • Concerning the slaying of doe and roe deer, chapter 30
        • Concerning the ordering of every man's house, chapter 31
        • Concerning packing and peeling, chapter 32
        • Concerning forestallers, chapter 33
        • Concerning the banning of white fish out of the realm, chapter 34
        • Concerning printers, chapter 35
        • Concerning Monsieur D'Oisel, chapter 36
      • Legislation: private acts
        
        • Ratification of the contract made between my lord governor and Sir James Hamilton, chapter 37
        • Ratification of the act made between the queen's grace and my lord governor, chapter 38
      • Legislation
  • 1554, 12 April, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • 12 April 1554
        
        • Legislation: discharge of James Hamilton, duke of Chatelherault as governor of Scotland
        • Legislation
        • Legislation
  • 1555, 20 June, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Sources
      
      • 20 June 1555
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Legislation
          
          • Concerning the liberty of the holy kirk, chapter 1
          • Concerning the making and delivery of reversions, chapter 2
          • Concerning warning from redeemed lands and the pain for not removing therefrom, chapter 3
          • Concerning the addition made to the act of slaughters, chapter 4
          • Concerning the process to be had against persons passing out of the realm, chapter 5
          • The order for summoning parties to compear before the justice or other judges, chapter 6
          • Concerning the giving of sasines, chapter 7
          • Concerning the order for giving curators to minors, chapter 8
          • Concerning the eating of meat during Lent and other forbidden days, chapter 9
          • Concerning the redemption of lands, chapter 10
          • Concerning resignations to remain perpetually, chapter 11
          • Concerning the warning of tenants, chapter 12
          • The act made concerning the slaughter of parties in pursuit and defence of their actions and causes, chapter 13
          • Concerning the possession of tallow, victuals and meat out of this realm, chapter 14
          • Concerning the coming to the bar for the defence or pursuit in criminal causes, chapter 15
          • Concerning nullities, chapter 16
          • Concerning leagues and bonds, chapter 17
          • Concerning notaries, chapter 18
          • Concerning wool and other customable staple goods, chapter 19
          • Concerning all measures and weights, chapter 20
          • Concerning the giving of sasines upon precepts that have not passed from the chancery, chapter 21
          • Concerning the punishment of false witnesses, chapter 22
          • Concerning Falkland wood, chapter 23
          • Concerning the liberties and privileges of burghs, chapter 24
          • Concerning the slaying of wild beasts, wild fowl, hawking and hunting, chapter 25
          • Concerning the discharging of deacons and choosing of visitors, chapter 26
          • Concerning the common passage in burghs, chapter 27
          • Concerning the burghs of the west country, chapter 28
          • Concerning horning kirkmen for tax, chapter 29
          • Concerning lambs, chapter 30
          • Concerning ferrymen, chapter 31
          • Concerning the slaughter of pouts, partridges etc., chapter 32
          • Concerning the planting of woods, parks, forests and orchards, chapter 33
          • Concerning goldsmiths, makers of gold and silver works, chapter 34
          • Concerning the disposal of wine, salt and timber, chapter 35
          • Concerning the stealing of hawks, hounds, partridges, ducks and the slaughter of doe, roe deer, the hunting of deer, the taking of rabbits and fowl, chapter 36
          • Concerning the liberty of merchants at the west seas, chapter 37
          • Concerning beggars, chapter 38
          • Concerning the speaking ill of the queen's grace or Frenchmen, chapter 39
          • Concerning Robin Hood and the Abbot of Unreason, chapter 40
  • 1556, 2-9 May, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • 2 May 1556
        
        • Order: for uplifting taxation
          
          • Order by the lords of articles for uplifting taxation
  • 1557, 4 March, Stirling, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
  • 1557, c.29 March, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source
  • 1557, 14 December, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • In the parliament held at Edinburgh, 14 December 1557
        
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: protest
  • 1558, 29 November, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • Edinburgh, 29 November 1558
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Sederunt
        • Committee Members: lords of the articles
        • Procedure: extracts of letters patent, acts etc.
        • Procedure: protest over precedency
        • Procedure: discharge of commissions concerning the treaty of marriage between Mary Queen of Scots and the Dauphin Francis Valois
        • Procedure: particulars regarding the marriage treaty
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: protest; asking of instruments
        • Royal letters: from Henry II of France, Francis Valois, dauphin of France, to the three estates of parliament
          
          • Regarding the naturalisation
      • 5 December 1558
        
        • Judicial proceedings: reductions of forfeiture
  • 1560, 10 July, Edinburgh, Parliament
  • 1560, 1 August, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Sources
      
      • 1 August 1560
        
        • Sederunt
        • Procedure: petition
          
          • [The petition of the barons]
      • 17 August 1560
        
        • Legislation
          
          • [The Confession of Faith]
      • 24 August 1560
        
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: commission
          
          • The principal commission of the estates to move Queen Elizabeth to take [James Hamilton], earl of Arran as her husband
        • Legislation
          
          • Heads of acts made in the pretended parliament in August 1560
  • 1561, 15 December, Edinburgh, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • Sederunt at Edinburgh, 22 December 1561
        
        • Sederunt
        • Legislation
  • 1563, 4 June, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Source  
      
      • The acts of parliament held at Edinburgh on 4 June 1563  
        
        • Legislation
        • Procedure: commissions
  • 1564, 15 December, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Additional Sources
      
      • 15 December 1564
        
        • Procedure: preamble
        • Legislation
      • Undated, between 6 March 1564 and 1565
        
        • Charter: ratification
  • 1566, 7 March, Edinburgh, Parliament
  • 1566, 6 October, Edinburgh, Convention
    
    • Additional Source
      
      • At Edinburgh, 6 October 1566
        
        • Sederunt
        • Legislation
          
          • Taxation granted of £12,000
  • 1567, 14 April, Edinburgh, Parliament
    
    • Parliamentary Register
      
      • 14 April 1567
        
        • Procedure: preamble
      • 16 April 1567
        
        • Procedure: preamble and sederunt
        • Committee members: lords of the articles
        • Legislation: private act
          
          • [John Erskine], earl of Mar's discharge of the castle of Edinburgh
      • At Edinburgh, 19 April 1567
        
        • Sederunt
        • Legislation
          
          • Act concerning religion
        • Legislation: private acts
          
          • Ratification of the earldom of Mar and castle of Stirling and others etc.
          • [Sir Richard Maitland of] Lethington's ratification of the barony of Blythe
          • Master David Chalmers's ratification of Auchterflow and others
          • [James Hepburn], earl of Bothwell's ratification of Dunbar etc.
        • Legislation
          
          • Act concerning the law of oblivion
          • Act concerning the making and posting of placards and bills
        • Legislation: private acts
          
          • The ratification of the bairns of Lord Robert [Stewart] of the third of Holyroodhouse
          • [James Stewart], earl of Moray's ratification of the earldom of Moray and others
          • John Chisholm's ratification of the King's Wark in Leith
          • [George Gordon], earl of Huntly's ratification
          • [John Maxwell], lord Herries [of Terregles's] ratification of Terregles
          • John Sempill's ratification etc.
          • [James Ogilvie], laird of Findlater's ratification of Findlater and others
          • [Michael Balfour], laird of Burleigh's ratification of the coronership of Fife
          • [David Lindsay], earl of Crawford's ratification of Findon
          • [Andrew Leslie], earl of Rothes's ratification
          • [James Douglas], earl of Morton's ratification
          • [Archibald Douglas], earl of Angus's ratification
          • [George Sinclair], earl of Caithness's ratification
          • Ratification to [George Ramsay], laird of Dalhousie
        • Judicial proceedings: reductions of forfeiture
          
          • Reduction: the wife and bairns of the late George [Gordon], earl of Huntly against the advocates and others
          • [George Gordon], earl of Huntly against the advocates, treasurer and comptroller, reduction
          • [John Gordon], earl of Sutherland against the advocates and others
          • John Gordon of Strathdon, Alexander Gordon of Beldorney against the advocates and others
          • John Gordon of Cairnborrow and James Gordon of Tillyangus against the advocates
          • Master George Gordon of Beldorney against the advocates
          • The bairns of the late Thomas Gordon of Craigtullie against the advocates
          • David Balfour of Balbuthie against the advocates etc.