The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2025), date accessed: 25 January 2025

[1585/12/27]1

Regarding the office of chancellery

2Forasmuch as by an act of our sovereign lord's parliament, held at Edinburgh on 22 May 1584, concerning the approving of the constitution of certain officers of state, it is statute that none of the said officers shall be removable from their offices in time coming but for just and worthy causes tried by his highness and his estates in parliament; and now [James Stewart, earl of Arran], his highness's chancellor, being departed and in his majesty's danger for his highness's jewels undelivered, his majesty, with advice of his three estates, finds the office of chancellery to be vacant and that the same may be served in time coming by such a person and such a manner as his highness shall appoint.

  1. NAS, PA2/13, f.38v.
  2. Written in margin seems to have been 'P.V.' originally, but the 'P' has been scored out and the 'V' turned into a 'P'.