The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 20 April 2024

[1706/10/408]1

Procedure

Prayers said. Rolls called.

Procedure: minutes read; commissioners of supply added; act read and approved

Minutes of the last sederunt read.

Additional list of commissioners of supply for several shires given in and read, and ordered to be added to the commissioners formerly named for the said respective shires.

Thereafter the act concerning public debts, read a second time and again read over by paragraphs and, after some amendments and additions, the act as amended was voted and approved.

Petition: recommendation

Petition for [John Lindsay], earl of Crawford for an allowance for his father's charges and trouble as president to the parliament of 1690, read and the petition recommended to her majesty in the terms of a deliverance upon the petition.2

Procedure: letter voted and approved

Then it was moved that now, in the conclusion of the parliament, a letter to her majesty be brought in, and a draft of a letter being accordingly brought in and read, the same, after some amendments, was voted and approved.

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.88/265 (note parallel folio system).
  2. APS has this title 'Recommendation in favour of the earl of Crawford' but no text. Full text not yet discovered. See additional sources A1706/10/51.