[1703/5/22]¹

Procedure: order concerning precedence

Order for the clerk register's searching in the records how the lairds of Cavers, when formerly elected with knights baronet for the shire of Roxburgh, were ranked in the rolls

[Archibald Douglas], laird of Cavers, having insisted on his protestation against the lord register and the lord lyon for altering the order in the return of the election for the shire of Roxburgh observed in this and former elections, where the lairds of Cavers were chosen, the lord clerk register was ordained to search in the records of parliament how the lairds of Cavers, when formerly elected with knights baronet to represent that shire, were in use to be ranked in the rolls, and to report.