The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2025), date accessed: 16 July 2025

[1706/10/211]1

Procedure

Prayers said. Rolls called.

Procedure: minutes read

Minuts of the last sederunt read.

Procedure: twenty-second article read and debated

The tuenty-second article of union again read and, thereafter, the first paragraph thereof in relation to the number of the representatives for Scotland in the parliament of Great Brittain was read over again and, after long debate, a vote was stated approve of the first paragraph of the tuenty-second article or not. But before voteing, there were four severall protests given in, viz. one by the duke of Atholl, a second by the earle of Buchan, a third by George Lockhart of Carnwath and a fourth by Walter Stewart, commissioner for the burgh of Linlithgow, all against the said vote and the severall protesters took instruments thereupon.2

  1. NAS. PA6/36, f.53/218 (note parallel folio system).
  2. 'the which several protests are as follows' inserted in APS.