Procedure: minutes and draft acts read

Minutes of the last sederunt read.

Drafts of the following acts, namely: act recognising her majesty's royal authority; act for adjourning the session; act declaring the present meeting of parliament a lawful and free meeting of parliament; act for securing the true Protestant religion and presbyterian government; and act for a national fast, all read for the first time.

Procedure: queen's letter read and remitted to committee

Her majesty's most gracious letter to the parliament, presented by her majesty's high commissioner in answer to the address from the parliament in relation to the Company Trading to Africa and the Indies, and concerning the union with the kingdom of England, read and ordered to be printed and recorded, and the drawing of an answer remitted to the committee to be named for drawing an answer to her majesty's letter read the former sederunt, of which letter now read the tenor follows: