Att Holy-rude-house the Twentie Sixt day of Apryll Jaj vijc and fyve years
A1705/4/30
A1705/4/301
Procedure
Commission to the Lord Philiphaugh to be Lord Register
Commission under the great seall In favours of Sir James Murray of Philiphaugh one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice to be Lord Register, Being presented by his Lordship The samen was read and ordered to be recorded, and therafter delyvered by the Lord Chancellor to his lordship who received the samen upon his knee as use is, and therafter his lordship did qualifie himselfe to her Majestie by swearing the oath of alleadgance and subbeing the same with the assureance as Lord Register, and the Lord Chancellor did tender to his lordship the oath de fideli. Off which Commission the tenor follows
Anna dei Gratia Magnae Brittaniae , Franciae et Hyberniae Regina fidei defensor, Omnibus probis hominibus ad quos praesentes Literae nostrae pervenerint Salutem . Quandoquidem nobis abunde Satisfactum sit, tam de fidelitate et praeclaris animi dotibus, quam de Sincera 2 integritate fidelissimi et dilectissimi nostri domini Jacobi Murray de Philiphaugh Speciatim vero quoad Munus et officium Registorum et Rotulorum nostrorum Clerici in dicto Regno nostro obeundum, Apprime est instructus, Noveritis igitur nos Nominasse, Constituisse et Ordinasse, Sicuti tenore praesentium Nominamus , Constituimus et ordinamus dictum dominum3 Jacobum Murray durante nostro beneplacito Solummodo Nostrorum Registorum et Rotulorum nostri Concilii, Sessionis et Scaccarii, Nec non omnium Commissionum Parliamentorum, et ordinum Conventuum in dicto nostro Regno Clericum, Dando et concedendo illi idem Munus et officium durante Spatio antedicto, Cum omnibus honoribus, dignitatibus, libertatibus proficuis, Immunitatibus, priviledgiis et casualitatibus quibuscunque eo Spectantibus, vel quae de Jure et praxi dicti nostri regni eo Spectare dignoscentur, Cum plena et absoluta potestate et au[c]toritate illi durante nostro beneplacito ut dictum est, Eligendi et constituendi Clericos Substitutos vel deputatos unum seu plures in dictis officiis seu quavis ejusdem parte, Idque ad vitam talium Substitutorum, Qui eorum eorum4 officiis, cum omnibus eorundem emolumentis durantibus omnibus eorum vitae diebus respective potientur Ordinamus denique et Au[c]toritatem ipsi tribuimus omnia et singula facere et praestare de lege et praxi hujus nostri regni dicto officio competentia vel perprius a quovis alio in dicto officio praestita In cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus magnum Sigillum nostrum appendi mandavimus Apud Aulam nostram de St James Septimo die mensis Aprilis Anno domini Millesimo Septingentesimo quinto , Et Anno Regni nostri Quarto , Per Signaturam manu S . D . N . Reginae Suprascriptam, Sealled at Edinburgh the Twentie fyfth day of Apryll one thousand Sevine hundreth and fyve years. Sic Subscribitur Alexander Ogilvie Wrytten to the great seall and registrat the 25 Apryll 1705. Sic subscribitur Charles Kerr.
1. NRS, PC1/53, 393.
2. The word ‘fidelitate’ scored out here.
3. The word *dominum* is an insertion.
4. Sic.
1. NRS, PC1/53, 393.
2. The word ‘fidelitate’ scored out here.
3. The word *dominum* is an insertion.
4. Sic.