Note 1010 — PREFATIO. (continued 3)
Reading edition
In the British Museum (MSS. Cotton. Calig., B. x., f. 42.) there is a contemporary transcript of this Letter, which contains the signatures, or rather the names of the persons who signed it, as follows:
"Your Grace's humble Serviteurs,
The Council, having the authority unto the next Parliament, erected by common election of the Earls, Lords, and Barons, convened at Edinburgh, of the Protestant faction.
(Earls.) My Lord Duke's Grace and Earl of Arran. The E. of Argile. The E. of Glencairn. (Lords.) James of St. Andrews. The Lord Ruthven. The Master of Maxwell. (Barons.) Tullibardine. The Laird of Dun. The Laird of Pittarrow. The Provost of Aberdeen, for the Burrows."