Parliament House
PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN THE PRESENT DAY.
the Earl of Marchmont
Earl of Cromarty . . . . 300 0 o
Lord Prestonhall . . . , 200 o o
Lord Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk zoo o o
Duke of Montrose . . . . 200 o o
Dukeof Athole . . . . 1000 o o
Earl ofBalcanis . . . . 500 o o
EarlofDunmore . . . . 200 o o
Stewart of castle Stewari . . 300 o o
Earl of Eglinton . . . . 200 o o
LordFraser . . . . . 100 o o
Lord Cessnock (afterwards Polworth) 50 o o
Mr. JohnCampbell . . . zoo o o
Earl ofForfar . . . . 100 o o
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie. . . IOO o o
EarlofGlencaim . . . . 100 o o
Earl of Kintore . . . . zoo o o
Earl of Findlater . . . . 100 o o
John Muir, Provost of Ayr . . 100 o o
LordForbes . . 5 0 0 0
Earl of Seafield (tfte&ards ?Findlater)
. . . . . 490 o o
Marquis of Tweeddale . . . 1000 o o
Dukeof Roxburghe . . . 500 o o
Lord Elibank? . . . . . 50 o o
LordBanff . . . . . 11 z o
Major Cunninghame ofEckatt . 100 o o
Bearer ofthe Treaty of Union . 60 o o
Sir William Sharp. . . . 300 o o
Coultrain, Provostof Wigton . . 25 o o
Mr. Alexander Wedderburn . 75 0 0
High Commissioner (Queensberry) 12,325 o o
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Lord Anstruther . - . 3 0 0 0 0
Ere the consummation, James Duke of Hamilton
and James Earl of Bute quitted ? the House in disgust
and dispair, to return to it no more.?
The corrupt state of the Scottish peerage can
scarcely excite surprise when we find that, according
to Stair?s Decisions,. Lord Pitsligo, but a few
years before this, purloined Lord Coupar?s watch,
they at the time ?? being sitting in Parliament !?
Under terror of the Edinburgh mobs, who nearly
tore the Chancellor and others limb from limb in the
streets, one half of the signatures were appended tc
the treaty in a cellar of a house, No 177, High
Street, opposite the Tron Church, named ?the
Union Cellar;? the rest were appended in an arbour
which then adorned the Garden of Moray House
in the Canongate ; and the moment this was accornplished,
Queensberry and the conspiratofs-for
such they really seem to have been-fled to England
before daybreak, with the duplicate of the treaty.
The Curses,? was long
after sung in every?street.
A bitter song, known as
? Curs?d be the Papists who withdrew
The king to their persuasion ;
Cun?d be the Covenanting crew
Who gave the first occasion.
