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422 took their seats. The proceedings were opened with Prayer by one of the Prelates; and, as the Book of Common Prayer was not used in Scotland, the officiating Bishop was left to his own discretion. The house, therefore, made a particular order, that "the Bishops in their Prayers should not mention or insinuate anything against their acts or proceedings." On the day on which the throne was declared vacant, "when all the business of the day was over, one of the Bishops offered to say Prayers according to custom. Upon which it was moved, that King James, being then no longer King of Scotland, that the Bishop should be admonished to pray for him at his peril. Which the Bishop observing, to avoid the incurring a penalty, very discreetly said only the Lord's Prayer: and so the house adjourned. "