Parliament of Scotland

This article is about the pre-1707 parliament. For the devolved legislative body established in 1999, seeScottish Parliament.

Parliament HouseinEdinburgh,the home of the Estates of Parliament between its completion in 1639 and theUnion of 1707.

TheParliament of Scotland,officially theEstates of Parliament,was thelegislatureof theindependentKingdom of Scotland.

TheparliamentofScotlandhad only one house (cf. House of Commons,House of Lords) and was mentioned for the first time during the early thirteenth century, and the first meeting one knows of was in 1235, during the reign ofAlexander II of Scotland.

The parliament, which is also referred to as theEstates of Scotland,theThree EstatestheScots Parliamentor theauld Scots Parliament(English:old), merged with theParliament of Englandin theActs of Unionin 1707. This formed theKingdom of Great Britain,which later became theUnited Kingdom.

Related pages

• Parliament of England
• Parliament of the United Kingdom

Further reading

• K. M. Brown and R. J. Tanner,The History of the Scottish Parliament volume 1: Parliament and Politics, 1235-1560(Edinburgh, 2004)

Other websites

• The Records of the Scottish Parliament,The complete acts and proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, General Council and much other parliamentary material from 1235 to 1707. The publication arose from the work ofThe Scottish Parliament Project
• The First Scottish Parliament: the Middle Ages – 1707,Scottish Parliament
• The Scottish Parliamentary Tradition,Scottish Parliament
• The Scottish Parliament Project - The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707,University of St Andrews
• Scottish Parliament recordsArchived2008-04-09 at theWayback Machine,National Archives of Scotland
• Scotland's powerful parliamentArchived2002-05-18 at theWayback Machine,abstract ofThe Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the Three Estates,Dr Roland Tanner, Tuckwell Press,ISBN1-86232-174-4
• Original Scottish Parliament,The Scotsman