[70] The numbers of the Lords of the Articles varied considerably. In 1587 it was fixed at any number varying from six to ten from each Estate, and this may be taken as fairly representative of their number throughout, though in early times it is somewhat smaller. Cf. _supra_, p. 48, n. [71] The title of "Lord" was early assumed by the president and senators of the College of Justice. The title was prefixed to the surname of the judge, if he did not take a territorial designation. An attempt was made by the wives of the early senators to adopt the corresponding title "Lady," but, according to tradition, their ambition received a check from King James, who remarked: "I made the carls lords, but wha made the carlines ladies?" [72] The befurred and bedecked gowns and hoods of every Estate are minutely described in an act of 1455. [73] Innes, _op. cit._, pp. 152-53. [74] One spectator of the scene remained cold and indifferent. John Knox protested against "such stinking pride of women," and feared that the "targetting of their taillies" (bordering of their robes with tassels) would "provock Goddis vengeance, not onlie against those foolish women, but against the haill Realme" (Laing, _Knox_, ii. 381). [75] _Register of the Privy Council_, 1600. [76] Parliament sat, almost invariably, in Edinburgh, from the beginning of the seventeenth century. [77] The law of treason is stated in book iv of the transcript of Glanvill's _De Legibus Angliae_, entitled "Regiam Maiestatem," and it should be compared with the acts against "Leasing-making" which were published from time to time. [78] There are two accounts, in the _Acts_, of the appointment of this Committee. In one place, they are elected to treat of certain special business (super certis specialibus Regis et Regni negociis--_Acts_, i. 173), and, in another, of secret business (super certis et specialibus et secretis ... negociis--_Acts_, i. pp. 507, 508). The lists of members are identical, and only one Committee is intended. [79] "In secreta camera domini Regis--in suo secreto concilio."--_Acts_, i. p. 546. [80] "In camera sui parliamenti in publico."--_Ibid._ [81] There seem, indeed, to have frequently been two royal councils apart from Parliament, and to the smaller and more carefully selected of these the title of "Secret Council" is applied. At other times, there is evidence of only one advisory council apart from the Estates. [82] Privy Council Register, vol. i, introd. p. xi. [83] Cf. p. 56. [84] Cf. p. 56. [85] _Acts_, ii. p. 241. [86] _Ibid._, ii. pp. 215, 220. [87] _Original Cronykil of Scotland_, book viii, c. 46.