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Procedure: nomination and election of privy councillors

Act regarding the nomination and election of councillors

The which day the king's majesty, with advice and approbation of the estates of parliament convened in plain parliament, nominated and elected the persons underwritten, namely: [John Campbell], lord Loudoun, chancellor, [James Stewart], duke of Lennox, [James Hamilton], marquis of Hamilton, [Archibald Campbell], earl of Argyll, [William Keith], earl Marischal, [John Gordon], earl of Sutherland, [John Erskine], earl of Mar, [William Douglas], earl of Morton, [Alexander Montgomery], earl of Eglinton, [John Kennedy], earl of Cassilis, [William Cunningham], earl of Glencairn, [James Stewart], earl of Moray, [John Drummond], earl of Perth, [Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline, [John Fleming], earl of Wigtown, [John Lyon], earl of Kinghorn, [Robert Ker], earl of Roxburghe, [George MacKenzie], earl of Seaforth, [John Maitland], earl of Lauderdale, [William Kerr], earl of Lothian, [George Hay], earl of Kinnoull, [David Carnegie], earl of Southesk, [John Wemyss], earl of Wemyss, [William Ramsay], earl of Dalhousie, [James Ogilvie], earl of Findlater, [William Hamilton], earl of Lanark, [Alexander Leslie], earl of Leven, [Archibald Douglas], lord Angus, [John Lindsay], lord Lindsay², [John Hay], lord Yester, [John Sinclair], lord Sinclair, [Alexander Elphinstone], lord Elphinstone, [John Elphinstone], lord Balmerino, [Robert Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh, [James Livingstone], lord Almond, [David Lindsay], lord Balcarres, [Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie], clerk register, [Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall], advocate, [Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston], justice clerk, [Sir James Carmichael], treasurer depute, [Sir James Galloway], master of requests, Sir Robert Gordon, Sir William Douglas of Cavers, Sir Patrick Hepburn of Waughton, [Sir George Dundas], laird of Dundas, [Sir David Graham], laird of Fintry, [Sir Thomas Myreton], laird of Cambo, [Sir Alexander Erskine], laird of Dun, [Sir Robert Innes], laird of Innes, [Sir Robert Graham], laird of Morphie and the provost of Edinburgh for the time being, to be of the council for life without offence, according to the act made in this present parliament upon 16 September last regarding the nomination and election of the officers of state, councillors and sessioners, and according to the commission to be granted by the king's majesty, with the advice and approbation of the estates of parliament, to the said lords and others of his majesty's secret council above-named for government of this kingdom in all affairs concerning the peace, good and happiness thereof, which by the laws and custom of this kingdom pertain to his majesty's secret council. Likewise his majesty, with advice and approbation foresaid, likewise nominated and elected [Thomas Howard], earl of Arundel, [Philip Herbert], earl of Pembroke, [William Cecil], earl of Salisbury and [Henry Rich], earl of Holland to be supernumerary councillors of his majesty's privy council of this kingdom and to be contained in the foresaid commission to be granted to the council as supernumerary therein. And his majesty, with advice and approbation foresaid, gives and grants to the said councillors above-named, and every one of them, all honours, dignities, liberties, immunities and privileges whatsoever belonging to the lords and others of his highness's privy council of this his ancient and native kingdom, to be held and possessed by them likewise and with all respects as the same have been possessed by any preceding councillors of his majesty's privy council foresaid, and which may be now held and possessed by them by the laws of this kingdom, according to the foresaid act of 16 September last, and to the commission to be granted to the said lords and others of his majesty's privy council as said is.