§ The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, That he had received from the Right Honourable Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, K.T., an Instrument of Disclaimer of the Earldom of Home, the Lordship of Dunglass, the Lordship of Home, the Lordship of Hume of Berwick, all in the Peerage of Scotland, the Barony of Douglas of Douglas in the County of Lanark in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and the Barony of Hume of Berwick in the Peerage of England, delivered in accordance with Section 1 of the Peerage Act 1963.