[1641/8/90]¹

Procedure: proposal concerning the election of Lord Loudoun to be chancellor

Conditional provision proposed to the election of [John Campbell], lord Loudoun to be chancellor

The which day the king's majesty reproduced the overture given in by Sir Thomas Hope regarding the conditions and provision for the Lord Loudoun's election to be chancellor, whereof the tenor follows: To voice to the election of the Lord Loudoun, with this declaration: that the allowing or disallowing of the Lord Loudoun to be chancellor, being made by the chancellor verbally, shall in no way be prejudicial to the clearing of the two difficulties proposed regarding the explanation of the act and voicing by way of billets, but that the same may be voiced, heard and debated in the same estate they now are and as if the parliament had not voiced to the election of the Lord Loudoun, and that his majesty and estates of parliament for these questions may be in the state in which it now is. According to the which paper and upon the condition contained therein, the king's majesty and estates proceeded to the election and approbation of the said Lord Loudoun to be chancellor.