The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 23 April 2024

[C1639/8/66]1

[Supplication continued; commissioner for Dumfries cited to answer to supplication; act refused]

Supplication by the town of Edinburgh, craving some course to be taken for relief of some part of the debt contracted for public works, continued to be thought upon.

John Newall Smith and [John Irvine], commissioner for Dumfries, being called in presence of the articles, [John Stewart, earl of Traquair], the lord commissioner general, required the commissioner of Dumfries to be ready precisely tomorrow to give answer to the supplication formerly presented by the said John Newall.

Act regarding cruives, together with the supplication presented therewith craving that the acts regarding Saturdays slop2, midstream and distance of hecks3 may be ratified with some additions, [Sir Alexander Falconer of] Halkerton and [Sir William Forbes of] Craigievar being heard for the act and supplication, read and refused in articles.

[Exceptions against act to be brought in; act approved; commission for plantation of kirks delivered to the lord commissioner]

Supplication by some noblemen and gentlemen craving that the prorogation of close time may be annulled, appoints all persons craving exemption to produce the same in writing, that they may be represented to the parliament together with the act.

Act for apprehending rebels read, voted and passed in articles and given to [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth to be shown to the noblemen.

Commission for plantation of kirks delivered to [John Stewart, earl of Traquair], the commissioner's grace.

[Overture for the disorders in the north to be brought in; supplication read and continued]

The noblemen appointed to give in their overture for the north after noon.

Supplication by [Archibald Johnston of Wariston], procurator for the kirk, craving ratification of his gift and assignation for his pension, read and continued until after noon.

  1. NAS, PA6/3, 'August 31-October 22 1639', f.17(a) v-17(b) r.
  2. Defined in DSL as the opening or passage left in a salmon cruive, by law, from Saturday to Monday morning, to allow free passage of the fish.
  3. Defined in DSL as a grating or frame of horizontal and vertical bars in a river to obstruct the passage of fish or other solid bodies, without impeding the flow of water.