Contemporary Official Reports of the Proceedings at elections of Members of Parliament for the Shires of Roxburgh, Edinburgh, and Orkney, in 1628

Abstract

Joseph Robertson presents three original documents from the 1628 records of the Privy Council of Scotland. All three records relate to the challenges of electing Commissioners to parliament, the first from the Sheriff of Teviotdale, the second an anonymous record from Midlothian, and the third from the Register of the Sheriffdom of Orkney. He goes on to discuss the difficulties in making representatives attend parliament in the seventeenth century and the ways in which parliament tried to encourage them to do so.