§ THE LORD CHANCELLORacquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, Minutes of the Meeting held on the 24th day of July last of the Peers of Scotland for the election of their Representatives to sit and vote in the ensuing Parliament of the United Kingdom; and also, Return by the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland concerning Titles of Peerages called at the said Meeting, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted for 50 years last past as at the date of the said Meeting.
§ Ordered, that the said Minutes of Election, &c., be printed.—[No. 1.]
§ Several Lords took the Oath.
§ The Right Hon. Robert Offley Ashburton, Lord Houghton, having been created Earl of Crewe, of Crewe, in the county palatine of Chester, was (in the usual manner) introduced.