Procedure: arrangements regarding judicial sessions

Thir persones to the sessione of Perth': the bischop of Dunkelden',2the abbot of3 Lundoris, the archdene of Sainctandr',4and the clerk of the regist.5

For the barones: the Erle M[ar]schel, the Lord Glammys,6 Robert Graham of Fentre, Andro Charteris, Wil Bonar', Sandris Chaumer and the clerc of the registyr.

Item, as to the unlawis of the sessioune of the kirkmen, the prelatis sal hafe thaim, and of temporale men to landward the barones forsaid sal haf thaim, and of burges and within burgh the burges befor writin to haf thaim.

Item, gif ony of the persones forsaide nemmyt to sit on the said cessiounes hapynnis to be seeke or absent in the kingis service in ambaxat, in that case our soveraine lord and his consale sall chese ane uthir sic lyke discreite persoune, quhilk sall haf the samyn powere of the persone absent.9

  1. NAS, PA2/1, f.54r.
  2. Deleted - 'or Brechin'.
  3. Deleted - 'Skone/Lundoris Skone'.
  4. Deleted - 'or the dene of Dunkeldin'.
  5. Deleted - 'and in thir absence Maister Malcolm' Loutfute'.
  6. Deleted - 'James Skrymgeor constable of Dunde'.
  7. NAS, PA2/1, f.54r.
  8. NAS, PA2/1, f.54r.
  9. Remainder of folios 54r-v are blank. It is possible that f. 54 has been misordered at some point in the past, and should correctly follow f. 55.