[1540/12/2]¹

Sederunt

In the parliament of the most excellent prince and our lord, the lord James V, by the grace of God, king of Scots, held at Edinburgh on 4 December 1540 by the lords commissioners written below.

• For the clergy:
• [David Beaton], cardinal [and archbishop of St Andrews]
• [Gavin Dunbar, archbishop of Glasgow], chancellor
• [William Stewart], bishop of Aberdeen
• [Alexander Milne], abbot of Cambuskenneth
• [Robert Reid], abbot of Kinloss
• [George Dury], abbot of Dunfermline

• For the barons:
• [George Gordon], earl of Huntly
• [James Hamilton, earl of] Arran
• [Archibald Campbell, earl of] Argyll
• [William Graham, earl of] Montrose
• [John Erskine], lord Erskine
• [Walter Lindsay, lord] St John
• [William Ruthven, lord] Ruthven
• [James Foulis of Colinton], clerk register
• [Thomas Scott of Pitgorno], justice clerk

• For the burgh commissioners:
• [Simon Preston], provost of Edinburgh
• [Oliver Maxton], provost of Perth