The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2025), date accessed: 11 February 2025
[1706/10/49]1
Procedure: act of supply debated, voted and approved
And it was agreed to that a supply of eight months' cess should be granted to her majesty for the ends and uses mentioned in the act, extending to £577,066 13s 4d, and that it should be payable at the terms following, namely one month's supply upon 10 December for Martinmas [11 November] next; one month and a half month's supply at Candlemas [2 February] 1707; one month and a half at Whitsunday [15 May]; one month and a half at Lammas [1 August]; one month and a half at Martinmas the said year and one month's supply at Candlemas 1708.
Moved that in place of the retention of a twelfth part of annualrents allowed by the above act for a supply there be an allowance granted for retention of a sixth part of annualrents and, after some reasoning thereupon, it was put to the vote, approve of the article concerning the retention or amend, and it carried approve
And, after some amendments, the act was voted and approved.
Procedure: adjournment
Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
- NAS. PA2/39, f.17v-18.