House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 20 November 1606

Jovis, 20o die Novembris, 1606

Union with Scotland.

Mr. Speaker this Day came not to the House till Ten a Clock, and till Eleven was altum silentium; at which Time Sir John Crook, Sir Edward Stanhope, Sir Rich. Swale, and Mr. D. Hone, bring down from the Higher House, the Instrument of the Union, in Parchment signed and sealed by the Commissioners appointed the last Session; which they delivered with this Message: That where now the Matter of Treaty, by the Commissioners for the Union, was by them reduced to Writing; and already read, and considered of by the Lords in the Higher House; that their Lordships had sent it to be read and considered of here, and thereafter to be proceeded in, as should be thought fit.

The Reading was deferred, by Order, until the next Morning.