The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 23 April 2024
[M1703/5/44]1
[Member admitted; oaths taken; commission sustained]
Prayers said, the rolls called.
The minutes of the last sederunt read.
The lord clerk register having informed the parliament that Captain John Boswell, who competed with James Oswald [of Dunnikier] as commissioner for the burgh of Kirkcaldy, had taken up his commission, James Oswald took the oath of allegiance and oath of parliament and subscribed the allegiance and assurance and was admitted.
The controverted elections between John Hutchison, present provost, and Patrick Steven, late provost for the burgh of Arbroath, being called, the advocates for either party were heard, and the several protestations against their respective elections being read, after some debate the vote was stated sustain the commission in favour of Provost Hutchison or remit to the burgh to make a new election, and carried sustain the commission.
[Draft act read; continuation]
The draft of the act anent making peace and war read and ordered to be marked a first reading.
The lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament2
- NAS. PA3/7, Printed minutes No.44, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 55, f.1.
- NAS. PA6/36, 55, on rear: '18 August 1703, read in parliament and approved as amended'.