[Proclamation against tumultuary convocation of the lieges debated]

Then the lord chancellor acquainted the parliament that the secret council at their last meeting had under their consideration several accounts of irregular and tumultuary meetings by some people of the common and meanest degree in arms, and of abuses committed by them at Glasgow, stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Dumfries and several places of Lanarkshire, and that there were papers distributed inviting people to take up arms and to provide ammunition and provisions in order to their marching to disturb the parliament, all which he was directed by the right honourable the lords of her majesty's secret council to lay before the parliament, to the effect proper methods might be resolved upon for preventing the evil consequences of such practices. And thereafter presented a letter from the magistrates of Dumfries to her majesty's advocate bearing an account of the abuses and tumultuary meeting in that place, with a declaration emitted by those who met, which was affixed on the market cross of Dumfries, and both were read.

Whereupon a draft of a proclamation to be emitted by the parliament against all tumultuary and irregular meetings and convocation of the lieges was presented and read, and, after some discourse thereupon, it being objected that it did not appear that there was a particular information of any tumultuary meetings or irregular convocations in any other part of the shire of Lanark than at Glasgow,

Her majesty's high commissioner was thereupon pleased to notify to the parliament that he had information not only from Glasgow and Dumfries but also from several places in Lanarkshire of tumultuary and irregular meetings of men under arms and of their giving out and publishing their design of marching to disturb the parliament.

Thereafter the draft of the proclamation was again read, and, after reasoning thereupon and some amendments, a vote was stated approve of the proclamation or not.

[Voting list ordered to be printed; proclamation approved]

And, before voting, it was agreed that the members shall be marked as they vote and that the list of their names as they vote pro or con shall be printed and recorded, and the lord chancellor allowed to have his name printed and recorded as an approver. And the proclamation as amended being again read over,

The vote was put approve or not, and it carried approve.

[Act concerning the fencible men read; continuation]

Thereafter the draft of an act suspending the effect of that clause in the act of security for arming and exercising the fencible men, passed in the second session of this current parliament, and that during this current session of parliament only, read and a first reading ordered to be marked thereon.

Then the lord chancellor, by order of her majesty's high commissioner, adjourned the parliament until tomorrow at 10 o'clock.

[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament