[1587/7/36]¹

Act of certain matters remitted to the lords of council and session

²Our sovereign lord, with advice of his three estates assembled in this present parliament, has remitted and remits the articles and supplications after-specified to the lords of his highness's council and session, requiring them, by themselves and such advocates as they think suitable to call to them, to advise and consider upon the same articles and supplications: they are to say, an article for the better execution of decreets; an act in favour of pupils and idiots; concerning the interpretation of the act of parliament for writs of importance; concerning assizes in perambulations; concerning slaughter of parties at the horn; concerning the poor litigants in the law and their oppression of the country; an article against advocations; an article concerning James Murray, brother to the Laird of Polmaise; an article concerning poinding in stolen goods; the supplication of the burgh of Dundee against the burgh of Perth touching the priority of vote and place in parliament between them; a supplication concerning the archdeanery of Shetland to the session and other judges competent; and whatsoever thing the said lords of council and session ordain to be done in the said articles and supplications, or any of them, the same to have like effect, force and execution in time coming as if it were done, statute and ordained by the whole estates in this present parliament.