ACT Ordaining the Absent Members to Attend the Meeting of the Estates.  
Edinburgh, The Twenty One Day of May, 1689.  
THe Meeting of the Estates taking into their Consideration, That by the Laws of this Kingdom, all Noblemen, and Commissioners Elected for Shires and Burghs, are holden to give their Presence in Parliaments, Conventions, and Meetings of the Estates, and to Attend the diets thereof, under certain Pains and Penalties; and that by a Proclamation of the 12th of April last, All Noblemen, and Commissioners from Shires and Burghs were Required to Repair to this Town, and Attend the diets of the Meeting of the Estates, under the Pain of Imprisonment: And the Estates having thereafter Adjourned their Meeting unto this Day, and now being Met, and finding several Members to be Absent; Therefore the Estates Do Ordain and Require, all Noblemen, and Commissioners for Shires and Burghs, as well these who formerly were Present, as these who never came to the Meeting, to Repair to this Town, betwixt and the 28th day of May instant, and to Attend the diets of the Meeting of Estates, and not to be Absent therefrom, without Leave from the Estates; Certifying such as shall not give Obedience, that they shall not only be Imprisoned, and liable to the fines Imposed by Acts of Parliament for Absents, but they shall also be holden as Dis-affected to the Government, and Proceeded against accordingly. And grants warrant to heralds, Macers, or pursuivants, to pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and to make Publication of these Presents, that none may pretend Ignorance. Extracted forth of the Records of the Meeting of the Estates, by me  
AL. GIBSON, Cls.   

Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, by Order of the Convention of Estates, Anno Dom. 1689.