The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 16 April 2024

[A1641/8/88]1

[Petition of Colonel John Cochrane seeking to be heard in parliament]

Petition by Colonel John Cochrane2

To your sacred majesty and the honourable estates of parliament, the humble petition of Colonel John Cochrane.

Whereas I represented yesterday to your majesty and the honourable estates of parliament my humble desire that I might have a hearing, I do now in a most submissive way reiterate the same today, hoping your majesty with the estates of parliament will be graciously pleased to condescend to my humble petition in granting me a favourable answer.

15 October 1641

Read in audience of his majesty and estates of parliament.

  1. NAS, PA6/5, 'October 15 1641'.
  2. This clause is written on the rear of the document.