[315] Acts of Sederunt, p. 161.
[316] The Privy Council in the previous April had passed an act, ‘that the haill marquisses and earls of this kingdom sall leave off their former resolution anent the wearing of velvet robes in time of parliament,’ and ‘that they sall provide themselves with robes of red scarlet cloth again the next session, &c.’—Maitland Club Misc., i. 147.
[317] Letter of the three privy-councillors, in Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI., p. 84.
[318] Melville’s Diary, p. 648.
[319] These particulars are derived from a fragment of the deed entered into by the gentlemen for payment of the money.
[320] Letters, &c., of the Reign of James VI.
[321] Ibid., p. 89.
[322] Geneal. Deduction of Fam. of Rose of Kilravock, Spald. Club, p. 249.
[323] Letter in James Melville’s Diary, Wodrow Club ed., p. 671.
[324] Melville’s Diary, p. 688.