The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 19 April 2024
[1585/12/5]1
Committee members: lords of the articles
Immediately thereafter, in presence of the king's majesty, these lords underwritten were chosen upon the articles:2
- For the clergy
- [Patrick Adamson], archbishop of St Andrews
- Bishops
- [Peter Rollock, bishop of] Dunkeld
- [Adam Bothwell, bishop of] Orkney
- [Patrick Gray, master of Gray, commendator of] Dunfermline
- [Mark Kerr, commendator of] Newbattle
- [James Drummond, commendator of] Inchaffray
- [Alexander Seton, commendator of] Pluscarden
- [Alexander Colville, commendator of] Culross
- For the barons
- [George Gordon, earl of] Huntly
- [John Stewart, earl of] Atholl
- [Francis Hay, earl of] Erroll
- [Lawrence Oliphant, lord] Oliphant
- [Robert Seton, lord] Seton
- [Henry Sinclair, lord] Sinclair
- [William Maxwell, lord] Herries
- [Alan Cathcart, lord] Cathcart
- For the burgh commissioners
- Nicholas Uddard }
- Michael Gilbert } for Edinburgh
- Alexander Wedderburn [of Kingennie] for Dundee
- Anthony Bruce for Stirling
- Alexander Rutherford [of Rubislaw] for Aberdeen
- Robert Rowat for Glasgow
- James Cockburn for Haddington
- [Sir] David Lindsay [of the Mount] for Cupar
- NAS, PA2/13, f.34v.
- CSP Sco., viii, 161 gives an incomplete but slightly different list of the lords of the articles for this session.