[1706/10/164]¹

Procedure: protest

And [John Murray], duke of Atholl gave in the following protest:

Whereas salt is the most useful and necessary ingredient in all sorts of victuals, any duties or excises on the same may prove a most grievous and insupportable burden, especially on the commons, I do, therefore, protest for myself, and in name of all who shall adhere to it, that the people of this kingdom now called Scotland shall be free forever of any duties and excises on the salt made within this kingdom.

Which being read, he took instruments thereupon.