[1600/11/6]¹

Committee members: lords of the articles

The estates of this present parliament have chosen these persons underwritten to be lords of the articles:

• Bishops
• [Peter Rollock, bishop of] Dunkeld
• [Alexander Campbell, bishop of] Brechin

• Abbots
• [John Bothwell, abbot of] Holyroodhouse
• [Patrick Leslie of Pitcairlie, commendator of] Lindores
• [Walter Stewart, prior of] Blantyre
• [James Drummond, commendator of] Inchaffray
• [Edward Bruce, commendator of] Kinloss
• [William Melville, commendator of] Tongland

• Earls
• [Ludovic Stewart, duke of] Lennox
• [Francis Hay, earl of] Erroll
• [George Keith, earl] Marischal
• [John Erskine, earl of] Mar

• Lords
• [Robert Seton, lord] Seton
• [Alexander Livingston, lord] Livingston
• [Mark Kerr, lord] Newbattle
• [Alexander Seton, lord] Fyvie

• Barons
• Sir James Hamilton [of Crawfordjohn for Lanark]
• [Sir Alexander Hamilton of] Innerwick for Haddington
• [David Kinninmonth of] Craighall for Fife
• [David Carnegie of Colluthie and] Kinnaird for Forfar
• [Alexander Irvine of] Drum for Kincardine
• [Patrick Ogilvie of] Inchmartine for Perth
• [John Urquhart of Craigfintray], tutor of Cromarty for Cromarty

• Commissioners for the burghs
• Thomas Fisher and George Heriot for Edinburgh
• [Sir James Scrimgeour of Dudhope], constable of Dundee for Dundee
• James Drummond for Perth
• Alexander Rutherford [of Rubislaw] for Aberdeen
• James Forret for Glasgow
• George Bruce [of Carnock] for Culross
• [William Learmonth], laird of Dairsie, younger, for St Andrews
• John Williamson for Stirling

The king's majesty and estates ordain the lords of council to convene daily in the king's palace of Holyroodhouse by 8 o'clock in the morning, until the king's majesty and estates be ready to come to the tolbooth again; and ordains all our sovereign lord's lieges who have any articles or complaints to give in the same between now and 13 November instant.