Procedure: act read, voted and approved

The act for a national fast the second Thursday of July next, read the second time and voted and approved.

Procedure: acts touched with the sceptre

Then the above acts, namely: act recognising her majesty's royal authority; act adjourning the session; act for securing the Protestant religion and presbyterian government; act declaring the present meeting of parliament to be a lawful and free meeting of parliament; and act for a national fast were all, by her majesty's high commissioner, touched with the sceptre in the usual manner, and ordered to be published and printed, of which several acts the tenors do follow.

  1. NAS. PA2/38, f.46v-47.