The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 24 April 2024

[1706/10/106]1

Procedure: draft proclamation read, approved; vote to be printed

Thereafter the draft of the proclamation was again read and, after reasoning thereupon and some amendments, a vote was stated approve of the proclamation or not. And before voting, it was agreed that the members shall be marked as they vote and that the list of their names as they vote, pro or con, shall be printed and recorded and the lord chancellor allowed to have his name printed and recorded as an approver. And the proclamation as amended being again read over, the vote was put approve or not, and it carried approve.2

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.29/178v (note parallel folio system).
  2. For alternative text see PA6/36, f.179: 'In the parliament 29 November 1706 a vote was stated in these terms, approve of the proclamation against all tumultuary and irregular meetings and convocation of the lieges, yes or no, and it carried approve, and the list of the members as they voted, pro or con, (ordered to be printed) is as follows'. This passage does not appear in APS.