[1] [2] A ParliamentThis yere was a Parliament holdẽ in which the Lardes of Brimſton, Ormiſton, & Grange, with M. Henry Balnaues & others,Gentlemen reſtored. which were forfalted in the gouernours time, were reſtored. The ſame time the Queene by counſel of Mõſieur Doyſell, & Rubie, and certaine of the nobi|litie of Scotland, requeſted, that a newe order might be made,A yearly taxe to be leuied is proponed. whereby euery mans ſubſtance ſhould be put in an inuentorie, and according to the rate thereof to pay an yearely taxation to be put and kept in the treaſure houſe til warres be|gan, and that then men of warre might be wa|ged therewith to lie vpon the borders, & none in that caſe to be charged to come from their owne houſes,This taxatiõ was not graũ| [...]th. but when any great army came foorth of England to inuade Scotlande. Diuers of the great Lords were agreed to this ordinance, but the moſt part of the Barons hearyng there|of, aſſembled togither in Edenburgh, to the nũ|ber of two hundred and aboue, & ſent the Lardes of Calder in Louthian, and of Wemis in Fife, to the Queene and Lordes, beſeching them not to ſet ſuche newe taxations vpon them, for they could not beare ſuch burdens, but would defend the realme as before time their elders had done, not meanyng to put their goodes in inuentorie, as if they ſhould already make their laſte will & teſtaments: & ſo by this meanes that deuiſe was daſhed to the griefe of the inuentors.