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The Scottish Parliament; Its Constitution and Procedure 1603-1707; With an Appendix of Documents
The Scottish Parliament Its Constitution and Procedure 16031707 With an Appendix of Documents Author:Charles Sanford Terry General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: J. MacLehose and sons Subjects: Scotland History / Europe / Great Britain Political Science / General Political Science / Government / Legislative Branch Political Science / Political Process / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR rep... more »rint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BARONS OF THE SHIRES. County representation in the Scottish Parliament embraced at its fullest extent thirty-three constituencies: 1. Edinburgh. 12. Bute. 23. Fife. 2. Haddington. 13. Renfrew. 24. Forfar. 3. Berwick. 14. Stirling. 25. Banff. 4. Roxburgh. 15. Linlithgow. 26. Kirkcudbright. 5. Selkirk. 16. Perth. 27. Sutherland. 6. Peebles. 17. Kincardine. 28. Caithness. 7. Lanark. 18. Aberdeen. 29. Elgin. 8. Dumfries. 19. Inverness. 30. Orkney. 9. Wigton. 20. Nairn. 31. Clackmannan. 10. Ayr. 21. Cromarty. 32. Ross. 11. Dumbarton. 22. Argyll. 33. Kinross. While the names of the Commissioners of the Shires are not given in the rolls of Parliament before 1590, the names of their constituencies are indicated for the first time in the Convention of I608.1 The order of precedence varies considerably in the rolls. Perthshire and Fifeshire both claimed precedence of the other shires.3 But by the last quarter of the century theorder in which the county constituencies are named had settled down more or less into the sequence in which they are printed above. 1 Porritt, ii. 78. 4. P. S. v. 254 ; ix. 6. On 1 1th September, 1641, an Act appointing Commissioners of the Shires to draw lots for place and precedence in each Parliament was read and adjourned (Ibid. v. 660). County representation in the Scottish Parliament was not complete until so late as the Convention of 1681, when,...« less