Procedure: twenty-second article, clause voted and approved; vote printed and protests recorded

And it was agreed that the members' votes be marked and that a list of their names, as they shall vote, be printed and recorded, and that at calling the rolls the adherers to the above respective protests be marked. As also, the lord chancellor was allowed to have his name marked, printed and recorded as an approver.

Then the vote was put, approve the first paragraph of the twenty-second article of union or not, and it carried approve.

And [Alexander Sinclair], earl of Caithness, [David Murray], viscount of Stormont, [Patrick Oliphant], lord Oliphant, [John Elphinstone], lord Balmerino, [William Hamilton], lord Bargany, [Patrick Kinnaird], lord Kinnaird, John Brisbane, younger of Bishopton, Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, Sir Patrick Murray of Ochtertyre, John Murray of Strowan, James Ogilvie, younger of Boyne, Alexander MacKie of Palgowan, James Sinclair of Stemster, Alexander Robertson [of Craig], Alexander Duff [of Drummuir], Francis Mollison, Robert Scott, Archibald Shiells, Mr John Lyon, Mr John Carruthers [of Denbie], George Home, John Bain [of Tulloch] and Mr Robert Fraser adhered to [John Murray], duke of Atholl's protest; Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Sir Robert Sinclair of Longformacus, Sir Hugh Cathcart of Carleton, the said John Brisbane, younger of Bishopton, Mr William Cochrane of Kilmaronock, the said Sir Humphrey Colquhoun of Luss, Robert Rollo of Powhouse, Mr James Carnegie of Finavon, David Graham, younger of Fintry, and the said James Sinclair of Stemster, adhered to George Lockhart of Carnwath's protest; and [John Lindsay], earl of Crawford, and [James Stewart], earl of Galloway adhered to [David Erskine], earl of Buchan's protest.

So in the parliament on 7 January 1707 a vote was stated, approve the first paragraph of the twenty-second article of union or not, and it carried approve, and the list of the members' names as they voted approve or not (ordered to be printed) is as follows.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.53/218-218v and PA6/36, f.219 (note parallel folio system).