The Way how they are to be elected is thus: Each of the Boroughs are to elect a Commiffioner in the fame Manner as they did formerly (Edinburgh excepted, which is allowed one for itfelf) and the Commiflioners fo elected are to meet at fuch Time and Borough within their refpective Districts, as His Majefty, His Heirs or Succeffors, fhall appoint, and elect one for each of the fourteen Districts above mentioned; and where the Votes of the Commiffioners for the faid Boroughs met to chufe Repre fentatives from the feveral Diftricts to the Parliament of Great Britain fhall be equal, the Prefident of the Meeting is to have a cafting Vote, befides his Vote for the Borough, from which he is fent. The Commiffioner from the eldest Burgh is to prefide in the first Meeting, and the Commiffioners from the other Burghs in their refpective Diftricts to prefide afterwards by turns, in the fame Order as the faid Burghs were then called in the Rolls of the Parliament of Scotland. And in cafe any of the said fifteen Commiffioners die, or become legally incapable to fit, then the Town of Edinburgh, or the District which chofe the faid Member, fhall elect a Member in his or their Place. None are capable to elect, or to be elected for any of the three Estates, but fuch as are one and twenty Years. of Age complete, and are Proteftants. Those who are fufpected of Popery, and refufe, when required, to fwear and fubfcribe the Formula, contained in the third Act made in the 8th and 9th Seffions of King William's Parliament, intituled, An Act for preventing the Growth of Po pery, are made incapable of electing, or being elected; as are all thofe, who are at prefent incapable by the Laws of the Kingdom.

And for the effectual and orderly Election of the Scots Lords and Commons, it was enacted, That when Her Majefty, Her Heirs and Succeffors, fhall declare their Pleasure for holding the firft, or any fubfequent Parliament of Great Britain, and when for that effect a Writ fhall be iffued out under the Great Seal of the united Crowns, directed to the Privy Council of Scotland, that until the Parliament of Great Britain make farther Provifion in the Matter, the faid Writ fhall contain a Warrant and Command to the Privy Council to ifiue out a Froclamation in Her Majefty's Name, requiring the Peers of Scotland to meet and affemble in fuch Time and Place within Scotland, as Her Majefty and Royal Succeffors fhall think fit, to elect the faid fixteen Peers; and requiring the Lord Clerk Regifter, or two of the Clerks of Seffion, to attend all fuch Meetings, and to adminifter the Oaths that are or fhall be by Law required, and to afk the Votes; and having made up the Lifts in piefence of the Meeting, to return the Names of the fixteen Peers chofen (certified under the Subfcription of the faid Lord Clerk Regitter, Clerk or Clerks of Seffion attending) to the Clerk of the Privy

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Council of Scotland. And in like Manner requiring and ordaining the Freeholders in the respective Shires or Stewartries to meet and convene at the Head Boroughs of the feveral Shires and Stewartries to elect their Commiffioners, according to the Order above mentioned, and ordaining the Clerks of the faid Meetings, immediately after the faid Elections are over, to return the Names of the Perfons elected, to the Clerks of the Privy Council. And lastly, ordains Edinburgh to elect their Commiffioner, and the other Royal Boroughs to elect each of them a Commiffioner, and to fend the faid Commiffioners at such Times to fuch Burghs within their respective Districts, as Her Majesty and Succeffors by fuch Proclamation fhall appoint. The common Clerk of the refpective Burghs, where the Election is appointed, is to attend the faid Meeting, and immediately after election to return the Name of the Perfon fo elected, certified under his Hand, to the Clerk of the Privy Council, that the Names of the fixteen Peers, thirty Commiffioners for Shires, and fifteen Commiffioners for Burghs, being fo returned to the Privy Council, may be returned to the Court, from whence the Writ did iffue under the Great Seal of the united Kingdom.

The present Reprefentatives will be found in the Lift of the British Parliament.

Having mentioned the Regalia, on occafion of the Riding of the Parliament, it is proper here to give a Description of them, fince by the Union Act they are no more to be made ufe of, but to be referved and depofited in Scotland for ever.

The Defcription of the Regalia of the Kingdom of Scotland, viz. the Crown, Sceptre, and Saword.

The Crown.

The Imperial Crown of Scotland is of pure Gold, enriched with many precious Stones, Diamonds, Pearls, and curious Enamelings; the Form of it is thus: First, it is composed of a large broad Circle or Fillet (which goes round the Head) adorned with twenty two large precious Stones; viz. Topazes, Amethyfts, Garmats, Emeralds, Rubies, Hyacinths in Collets of Gold of various Forms, with curious Enamelings; and betwixt each of these Collets and Stones are placed great oriental Pearls, one of which is wanting.

Secondly, Above the great Circle there is another fmall one formed with twenty Points, adorned with the like Number of Diamonds and Sapphires alternately, and on each Point there is a great Pearl.

Thirdly, The upper Circle is heightened with ten Croffes-floree, each being adorned in the Centre with a great Diamond be

twixt four large Pearls put crofs-ways, but fome of the Pearls are wanting; and the Number extant upon the upper Part of the Crown, befides what are in the under Circle, and in the Crosspatee are fifty one, and thofe Croffes-floree are interchanged with ten high Flower-de-luces alternately betwixt the great Pearls below on the Points of the fecond Circle.

This is faid to have been the Form of the Crown of Scotland, fince the League made betwixt Achaius King of Scots, and Charles is the Great of France; it differs from other Imperial Crowns, in that it is heightened with Croffes-floree alternately with Flowerde-luces, whereas the Crown of France is heightened only with Flower-de-luces, and that of England with Croffes-patee, alternative with Flower-de-luces. The Scots Crown, fince King James VI. went to England, has been ignorantly reprefented by Herald Painters, Engravers, and others, after the Form of the Crown of England, with Croffes-patee; whereas there is not one Crofs-patee, fave that on the Top of the Globe; for all the reft are Croffes-floree, fuch as we fee on our old Coins and Churches. Those Crowns were not antiently arched or close. Charles VIII. is faid to have been the firft King of France who wore a close Crown, as appears by his Medals coined in the Year 1495. wherein he is called Imperator Orientalis. Edward V. of England, in the Year 1483. is obferved by Selden to have carried a clofe Crown; though, by the by, I must fay, Edward V. of England was never crowned.

Fourthly, Our Crown is thus closed: From the upper Circle proceed four Arches, adorned with enamel'd Figures, which meet and clofe at the Top, furmounted with a celeftial Globe of Gold (a Globe indeed it is, but I can't tell why our Author calls it celeftial) enamel'd with blue Semee, or powder'd with Stars crofs'd and enamel'd with a large Crofs-patee on the Top, adorned in the Extremities with great Pearls (fuch a Crofs tops the Church of Holy-rood-house) and canton'd with other four in the Angles. In the Centre of the Crofs-patee, on the fore Part of the Crown, there is a fquare Amethyst, and on the other Side of the Crofs there is a great Pearl, and below it, on the Foot of the Polar Part of the Crofs, are these Letters, J. R. V. by which it would appear, that King James V. was the first that clofed the Crown with Arches, and topt it with a Globe and Crofs-patee. Yet it is evident, that the Money and Medals coined in the Reigns of King James III. and IV. have a clofe Crown and it is no lefs clear, that the Arches of the Crown were not put there from the Beginning, or at the making of the Crown; because, first, they are joined with Tacks of Gold to the antient Crown; and, fecondly, the Workmanship of the Arch is not fo good; and there is a fmall Diftinction in the Fineness betwixt the first and last, the latter being fuperfine Gold,

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and the other not fo exactly to that Standard; whereof Trial has been made.

Fifthly, The Tiara, or Bonnet of the Crown, was of purple Velvet, but in the Year 1685. there was put in a Cap of crimfon Velvet, adorned, as before, with four Plates of Gold, richly wrought and enamel'd, and on each of them a great Pearl, half an Inch in Diameter, which appears between the four Arches; and the Cap is fac'd with Ermin,

Upon the lowest Circle of the Crown, immediately above the Ermin, there are eight fmall Holes, two and two together, in the four Quarters of the Crown, in the middle Space betwixt the Arches, to which there are tied two Diamonds, and precious Stones. The Crown is nine Inches Diameter, being twenty feven Inches about; and in Height, from the under Circle to the Top of the Crofs-patee, fix Inches and a half. It always ftands on a fquare Cufhion of crimson Velvet, adorned with Fringes, and four Taffels of Gold Thread hanging down at each Corner,

The Scepter.

The Stem or Stalk of the Scepter, being Silver double overgilt, is two Foot long, of a Hexagon Form, with three Buttons or Knobs of the fame. Betwixt the first Button and the fecond is the Handle, of a Hexagon Form, furling in the middle and plain; betwixt the fecond Button and the third there are three Sides engraven; upon that under the Virgin Mary (one of the Statues on the Top of the Stem) there is the Letter J; upon the fecond Side, under St. James, the Letter R; and cn the third, under St. Andrew, the Figure 5. On the Side betwixt the J and R there are engraven fourteen Flower-de-luces; and on the Side betwixt the Figure 5 and Letter J, there are ten Thiftles continued from one Stem, from the third Button to the Capital. The three Sides under the Statues are plain, and on the other three there are antique Engravings; viz. Sacramental Cups, antique Medufa's Heads, and Rullion Foliages. Upon the Top of the Stem there is an antique Capital of Leaves embofs'd, upon the Abacus of which there arife round the Stem three Statues ; first, that of the bleffed Virgin, crown'd with an open Crown, holding in her Right Arm our bleffed Saviour, and in her Lett Hand a Globe with a Crofs; next to her, on her Right Hand, stands the Statue of St. Andrew, in an Apoftolical Garment, and on his Head a Scots Bonnet, holding in his Right Hand a Crofs, or Saltire (part of which is broke off) and in his Left Hand raifed up, there is an open Book. On the bleffed Virgin's Left Hand, and St. Andrew's Right, there is another Statue, which feems to reprefent St. James, with the like Apoftolical Gar

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ment, with a hanging Neck fuperadded, and upon his Head a little Hat, like the Roman Pileum; in his Right Hand half extended a Book open, and in his Left a paftoral Staff (the Head broke off) and above each Statue, being two Inches and a half, (except the Virgin Mary's, which is a little lefs) the Finishing of a Gothick Niche. Betwixt each Statue arifes a Rullion in Form of a Dolphin, very diftinct, in length four Inches, with Foliage along the Body, their Heads upwards, and affronted inward, and the Turn of their Tails ending in a Rofe or Cinquefoil outward. Above thefe Rullions and Statues flands another Hexagon Button, or Knob, with Oak Leaves under every Corner, and above it a chrystal Globe, of two Inches and a fourth part of an Inch diameter; within three Bars, jointed above, where it is furmounted with fix Rullions, and here again with an oval Globe, top'd with an oriental Pearl of half an Inch diameter. The whole Scepter in length is thirty four Inches.

The Sword.

The Sword is five Foot long, the Handle and Pommel are of Silver gilt, in Length fifteen Inches; the Pommel is round, but fomewhat flat on the two Sides; on the middle of each there is a Garland of embofs'd Work, and in the Centre there have been two enamel'd Plates, which are broke off. The Traverse, or Crofs of the Sword, is Silver gilt, feventeen Inches and a half long; the Form of it is like two Dolphins, their Heads joining, and their Tails ending in Acorns; the Shell hangs down towards the Point of the Sword, form'd like an Efcallop flourished (or rather like a green Oak Leaf) on the Blade of the Sword there is indented with Gold, Julius II. P. (this Pope (Roviere) was elected in anno 1503. and died anno 1513.) The Scabbard is of crimson Velvet, covered with Silver gilt, and wrought in Filagram Work into Branches of Oak with Leaves and Acorns. On the Scabbard there are four round Plates of Silver gilt; two of them near the Chape are enamei'd blue, and thereon in golden Characters, JULIUS II. PON. MAX. N. At the Mouth of the Scabbard, oppofite to the Hook, there is a large fquare Plate of Silver enamel'd Purple in a Cartouche Azure, an Oak Tree eradicate and fructuate, Or, and above the Cartouch the Papal Enfign, viz. two Keys in Saltyr addoffee (three Bowls formed like Rofes or Cinquefoils) tied with Trappings, and Taffels hanging down at each Side of the Cartouch. Above the Keys is the Papal Tiara, environed with three Crowns, and two Labels turn'd up adorned with Croffes.

Pope Julius II. who gave this Sword to King James IV. had for his Armorial Figures an Oak Tree fructuate (which is the Reason that the Sword is adorned with fuch Figure) a Hill and

a Star;