Procedure: minutes read; queen's letter presented

Minutes of the last sederunt read.

A letter from her majesty to the parliament was presented by the lord chancellor and read, acquainting the parliament that her majesty had empowered her commissioner to consent to an act dissolving all mines and minerals within the dukedom of Queensberry from the crown in favour of [James Douglas], duke of Queensberry and his successors in manner therein expressed.