The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 25 April 2024
[M1703/5/53]1
[Draft acts read and laid open; petition read and granted]
Prayers said, the rolls called.
The minutes of the last sederunt read.
The draft of an act discharging the importation of all foreign wool and the making or wearing any woollen cloth above the price of £7 4s per ell read and ordered to lie on the table.
The draft of an act for reviving an act passed in the 12th parliament of King James VI anent mines and minerals read and ordered to lie on the table.
Petition by Mr William Black, advocate, relating to his woollen manufactory at North Mills of Aberdeen, read, and thereupon the said manufactory, by a vote and deliverance of parliament, endued with the ordinary privileges, and the commissioners of supply in the shire empowered to impose yearly £1,000 from year to year for five years on the land rent of the shire for breeding up boys in manner and for the ends mentioned in the petition.
[Act read and delayed; continuation]
The act anent the prohibition of exporting English or Irish wool until the next session of parliament read again, and, after much debate, the vote being asked proceed or delay, carried delay.
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.53, 1 or NAS. PA6/36, 64, f.1.
- NAS. PA6/36, 64, on rear: '2 September 1703, read in parliament and approved'.