§ The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland minutes of the election of the Earl of Rothes as one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, 8th November last, in room of Ronald Ruthven Earl of Leven and Melville, deceased; and separate return by the Lord Clerk Register of certain titles of Peerage called at the said election, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted at any election for fifty years then last past (pursuant to Act 14 & 15 Vict. chap. 87.). Ordered, that the said minutes of election, etc., be printed. (No. 217.)