Note 316 — REIGN OF JAMES VI.: 1603-1625.
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The Privy Council in the previous April had passed an act, ‘that the haill marquisses and earls of this kingdom sall leave off their former resolution anent the wearing of velvet robes in time of parliament,’ and ‘that they sall provide themselves with robes of red scarlet cloth again the next session, &c.’—Maitland Club Misc., i. 147.