His Majesties letter to the Privy Council of Scotland, for opening the signet, and intimating the sitting of the session. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1689 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B06608 Wing W2366 ESTC R186652 53299352 ocm 53299352 180073 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06608) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180073) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2812:17) His Majesties letter to the Privy Council of Scotland, for opening the signet, and intimating the sitting of the session. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) Scotland. Privy Council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, by order of Privy Council, Edinburgh : 1689. Caption title. Item identified as W2366 on Wing reel 951 is actually W2372A. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.). Imperfect: right edge cropped, with slight loss of text. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. 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Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-10 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-12 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion His Majesties LETTER To the Privy Council of Scotland , For Opening 〈◊〉 Signet , and Intimating the Sitting of the Session WILLIAM R. RIght trusty and right wel-beloved Cousins and Counselors , 〈◊〉 trusty and wel-beloved Cousins and Counselors , right trusty 〈◊〉 wel-beloved Counselors , and trusty and wel-beloved Couns●●●●● We Greet you well ; whereas Our Commissioner and the E●… of Our Parliament , did think fit to stop the opening of the Signet for 〈◊〉 time , till We should Signifie Our Pleasure , concerning the Nomination 〈◊〉 Lords of Session ; And We having seriously considered that Matter , an 〈…〉 great Inconveniency that must arise to Our Leiges , by so long a Su 〈…〉 of Justice , in that Our Ancient Kingdom : Therefore , We have Resolv●● 〈◊〉 make up a Compleat Nomination of the Lords of Session , and to open 〈◊〉 Signet , that Justice may have its Course , And We do Authorize , an●●●quire you to Emit a Proclamation in Our Name , certifying Our Leidge 〈◊〉 the Session will sit at the ordinary time , the first day of November next 〈◊〉 that the Lords of Session will proceed in the Administration of Justice , 〈◊〉 patch Processes as they stand in the Books of Enrollment , those Processing allwayes wakened in Our Name , and the Queens , and that Our Sig●●● Opened , so that all Summons and Writs may be expeded in the C●… Form. And We Do Require you to Dispatch this Proclamation and cause the Signet with all Diligence . Likewise you are to Advertise these Lo 〈…〉 Our Former Nomination , whose Oaths were taken by the Earl of C●… upon Our special Order , to give Attendance for passing of Bills of Su●… on , and other Bills in Common Form : And whereas Sir James Dalry●… Stair President of Our Colledge of Justice , and Sir John Baird of 〈…〉 ( whom We have now Reponed to his Place in the Session ) and Alexander Swinton of Mersignton have been Tryed , as to their Qualifica●… required by the Acts of Parliament , and accordingly Admitted , We therefore Authorize , and Require you to appoint them , or any Two of 〈◊〉 to Examine and Try the Qualifications of the Remanent Persons , nam●… Us , and Admit them to the said Office , if they shall find them Qu●… according to the saids Acts of Parliament ; And that these who shall be ●…mitted concur with them , in Tryal and Admission of the Rest : For all 〈…〉 this shall be your Warrand , and so We bid you heartily farewel . Given at Our Court at New-Market the Fifth day of October , one tho●●●●● six hundred eighty nine , And of Our Reign the first year . By His Majesties Command MELVIL● Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , by Order of Privy C●●●cil , Anno Dom. 1689.