The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 29 March 2024
[1706/10/36]1
Procedure
Prayers said. Rolls called.
Procedure: minutes read
Minutes of the last sederunt read.
Procedure: motions and debate over approving first article before considering church
The first article of union was again read, and thereupon a motion was offered in these terms, that it be agreed to in the first place to proceed to take the first article of union to consideration, with this provision, that if the other articles of union be not adjusted by the parliament then the agreeing to and approving of the first shall be of no effect, and that immediately after the said first article the parliament will proceed to an act for security of the doctrine, discipline, worship and government of the church as now by law established within this kingdom and, after some debate thereon, there was a state of a vote offered, approve of the motion, yes or no.
Whereupon there was a resolve offered in these terms, that before this house proceed to vote any of the articles of the treaty they will hear what security the commission of this church has to offer for the church government, and that before any incorporating union be voted, and after some further debate upon the said motion and resolve, a second state of a vote was offered that the church government be taken into consideration before the articles of treaty, yes or no. And, after some debate which of the two should be the state of the vote, it was put to the vote, whether the first or second should be the state of the vote, and it carried the first. Thereafter, it was put to the vote, approve the motion or not, and it carried approve.
Whereupon the first article of union was again read and, after some reasoning thereon, it being objected that an incorporating union of the two kingdoms was contrary to and inconsistent with the Claim of Right, the Claim of Right and the third act of the first parliament of her majesty Queen Anne entitled, act for approving the turning the meeting of the estates into a parliament, and the letter of the meeting of estates to King William, 24 April 1689, were all read.
- NAS. PA2/39, f.13v-14.