[1706/10/215]¹

Protestation given in by Walter Stewart [of Pardovan]

I, Walter Stewart, protest for myself and in name and behalf of all others who shall adhere to this my protestation, that the restriction of the representatives in parliament for this kingdom, as contained in the twenty-second article of the treaty of union, is contrary to the birthright of the peers, and rights and privileges of the barons and freeholders and royal burghs, and the fundamental laws and constitution of this nation. And if any vote shall pass approving of the said article in the terms that it stands, that any such vote shall not prejudice the birthright of the peers, rights and privileges of the barons and freeholders and royal burghs competent to them by the laws and constitution of this kingdom, and takes instruments upon this protestation, and desires that it may be inserted in the records of parliament.

Walter Stewart.