[63] Acts, ii. 289.
[64] Robertson, app. iv. This is the only evidence that we possess to show that the burgesses chose their own representatives.
[65] In the speech quoted supra, pp. 38-39, King James ignores the Lords of the Articles altogether.
[66] Miscellany of the Maitland Club, iii. 112-18.
[67] Afterwards the first earl of Haddington.
[68] "Humble Supplication of a great number of the Nobility and other Commissioners in the late Parliament," State Trials, iii. 604. Cf. also Row, History of the Church of Scotland, pp. 365-66 (Wodrow Soc.).
[69] History, vi. 87.
[70] The numbers of the Lords of the Articles varied considerably. In 1587 it was fixed at any number varying from six to ten from each Estate, and this may be taken as fairly representative of their number throughout, though in early times it is somewhat smaller. Cf. supra, p. 48, n.
[71] The title of "Lord" was early assumed by the president and senators of the College of Justice. The title was prefixed to the surname of the judge, if he did not take a territorial designation. An attempt was made by the wives of the early senators to adopt the corresponding title "Lady," but, according to tradition, their ambition received a check from King James, who remarked: "I made the carls lords, but wha made the carlines ladies?"
[72] The befurred and bedecked gowns and hoods of every Estate are minutely described in an act of 1455.