The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 29 March 2024
[1587/7/27]1
Against quarreling for priority of place or vote in parliament
2Forasmuch as in diverse parliaments held by our sovereign lord and his most noble progenitors sundry questions have been amongst noblemen and others of the estates for priority of places and votes in parliament, and thereupon sometimes quarreling, to the disturbance of the supreme court of parliament which ought to proceed with greatest honour and quietness; for remedy whereof in times coming, it is statute and ordained by our sovereign lord, with advice of his three estates of this present parliament, that none of his estates shall presume in time coming to make quarrel or provocation of trouble to others for priority of places or votes in parliament otherwise than by supplication, and content them with the order and direction of his highness and his said estates until their final decision of controversy, under the pain to be reputed and held as disturbers of the public peace and quietness of the realm and to be grievously punished for that at the discretion of his highness and lords of the articles assembled at that parliament.
- NAS, PA2/13, f.91v.
- 'V.' written in margin.