The Parliaments of Scotland

Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1924 - 546 pages

Numbers of the electorate in the burghs	5

The Treaty carried in the session of 170607	7

Approximation in personnel to the Privy Council	9

The gravest defects go far back into Scottish history	31

But Parliament not entirely a free agent	35

CONTENTS	61

E FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE REVOLUTION PAGE	75

Intervention of Charles II in 1674	81

Procedure from the reign of James III to that of James	326

Committee of the Articles appointed a Commission with full	346

The Convention of 1643	347

Supremacy of Parliament 164148	355

missive letters directed	361

Close association of Lords of the Articles Privy Council	362

Growth of royal influence	367

Under James VI the Committee of the Articles obtains complete	371

signs of reviving	85

F FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE UNION	95

Conventions still apt to be merely reinforced Privy Councils	141

Conventions in the minority of James V	142

Use of Conventions by James VI after 1603	147

Convention between 1567 and 1587 a more representative	161

B ABBOTS AND PRIORS	169

No further Commission receives the full powers of Parliament	188

Conventions and the Raid of Ruthven	199

50	218

uses Parliament as a weapon against the Assembly	226

Burgesses share in judicial work of Parliament	248

Attendance of commendators of religious houses 15601621	253

Cases of St Andrews Glasgow Arbroath Brechin and Dun	255

These attempts followed by a long intermission in its summons	264

Separate deliberations of the individual Estates up to the seven	267

Cases of masters after the Restoration	288

DURING THE GREAT REBELLION 163751	293

Residential qualification in shires imposed in 1587 but removed	297

Importance of the residential qualification in the burghs in this	303

ated by the Crown	307

The Berwickshire election of 1685	312

The electors probably the Town Council	376

The royal power of selection unaffected by the proclamation	378

Analogy with the Cabinet system	389

Until the seventeenth century no definition of the number	395

Speeches by nonmembers	401

315	403

Suggestion of voting by ballot	412

CHAPTER VI	419

Importance of the reign of Queen Mary in this connection	425

the whole House	427

70	433

negative voice	441

71	448

72	490

73	508

75	515

Denial of the existence of freedom of speech by James VI	521

8ANK N N 2 K	524

Freedom of servants from arrest not claimed	527

The Parliament House	533

INDEX	535

LOWER CLERGY	542

Title	The Parliaments of Scotland
Author	Robert Sangster Rait
Publisher	Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1924
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	22 Sep 2010
Length	546 pages

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