The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 25 April 2024

[C1639/8/14]1

[Overtures for justices of peace and idle beggars; commission for manufactories approved]

[Deleted clause]2

Thereafter the said overture regarding the justices of peace and beggars as they are marked in paper apart upon the overtures produced by the commission.

The commission for manufactories read, voiced and passed in articles, and [Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall], advocate, to draw up the commission to 123 noblemen, 12 barons, 12 burgesses with 12 councillors, or any five of every one of them, to think upon the persons.

  1. NAS, PA6/3, 'August 31-October 22 1639', f.7(a) r.
  2. 'The overture regarding the sturdy beggars etc., presented by the committee and appointed to be shown to some of all estates, to be advised therewith', deleted.
  3. 'of every estate, and five of every estate to be of the quorum', deleted.