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Procedure: appointment of clerks and deputes

Clerks of session

The which day the lord register, having presented Sir John Gibson, Mr John Hay, Mr Thomas Hay, Mr Alexander Gibson, Mr Laurence Scott and Robert Hamilton to be his deputes as clerks of the session, conforming to the gifts and deputations granted by him to them, they were admitted and gave their oaths of faithful administration in the presence of the estates of parliament.

Forasmuch as Sir Archibald Primrose of Chesters, knight and baronet, by virtue of a warrant under his majesty's hand of 7 August last, has hitherto exercised the office of clerk of register and appointed deputies in the session and for keeping of the registers of sasines in the several shires of this kingdom, the king's majesty and estates of parliament approves his exercising of the office aforesaid by his majesty's warrant and of the deputations given by him therein, and wills and declares the same to be valid in all time coming.