[1706/10/413]¹

Recommendation to her majesty in favours of the lords of session

A motion being made by the lord marques of Montrose, lord president of the privy councill, that seing the present sallaries of the president and remanent lords of session were long since setled and that great alterations have happened in the value of money and pryces of all things whereby these sallarys are now become disproportioned to the dignity, pains and expense of that trust, and that the sallarys being out of different funds do require charge and trouble to collect and recover them, and also seing that in this parliament there is a new addition made to their labour, the jurisdiction of the commission for plantation of kirks and valuation of teynds being transferred to the session, it might be humbly recommended to her majestie by this house, in her great wisdom to make furder provision for the said lord president and other lords of session, their sallarys out of some sure fund and so as their sallarys may be paid easily, to which motion the house did aggree and did recommend to my lord high commissioner to lay this their humble request before her majesty.

Seafield, I.P.D.P.