Procedure: appointment of advocates
Advocates and agents for the state

The which day the convention of estates admitted Mr Thomas Nicolson to be ordinary procurator for the estates and Mr Robert Dalgleish to be agent; and when they shall have occasion of consultations, they think fit that [Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall], lord advocate, Sir Thomas Nicolson, Mr James Baird, Mr Roger Mowat [of Drumbreck], Alexander Pearson and Mr Andrew Kerr be employed in that place.

  1. NAS. PA8/1, f.119r.