[73] Innes, op. cit., pp. 152-53.
[74] One spectator of the scene remained cold and indifferent. John Knox protested against "such stinking pride of women," and feared that the "targetting of their taillies" (bordering of their robes with tassels) would "provock Goddis vengeance, not onlie against those foolish women, but against the haill Realme" (Laing, Knox, ii. 381).
[75] Register of the Privy Council, 1600.
[76] Parliament sat, almost invariably, in Edinburgh, from the beginning of the seventeenth century.
[77] The law of treason is stated in book iv of the transcript of Glanvill's De Legibus Angliae, entitled "Regiam Maiestatem," and it should be compared with the acts against "Leasing-making" which were published from time to time.
[78] There are two accounts, in the Acts, of the appointment of this Committee. In one place, they are elected to treat of certain special business (super certis specialibus Regis et Regni negociis—Acts, i. 173), and, in another, of secret business (super certis et specialibus et secretis ... negociis—Acts, i. pp. 507, 508). The lists of members are identical, and only one Committee is intended.
[79] "In secreta camera domini Regis—in suo secreto concilio."—Acts, i. p. 546.
[80] "In camera sui parliamenti in publico."—Ibid.
[81] There seem, indeed, to have frequently been two royal councils apart from Parliament, and to the smaller and more carefully selected of these the title of "Secret Council" is applied. At other times, there is evidence of only one advisory council apart from the Estates.
[82] Privy Council Register, vol. i, introd. p. xi.