Note 56 — I.—Origin, Membership, and Method

"Comparentibus tribus Regni statibus apud Edinburgh, omnes comites nobiles et barones ac libere tenentes dicti regni...." The omission of the burgesses seems to have attracted the attention of Sir John Skene, who in his edited volume of the Acts (temp. Jac. VI) includes the formal revocation in the proceedings of the Parliament of 1437-38, and prints, instead of the somewhat less emphatic words of the original, a statement that the revocation was sanctioned by "the haill three Estates of the Realme, sittand in plane Parliament, that is to say, the Clergie, Barrones, and Commissioners of Burrowes."