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The Scottish Parliament
BY
ROBERT S. RAIT
FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
LONDON
BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
1901
| PAGE | ||
| Prefatory note | v | |
| Introduction | vii | |
| The Scottish Parliement before the Union of Crowns | 1 | |
| I. | Origin, Membership, and Method | 13 |
| II. | The Influence of Parliement | 60 |
| Appendix | 119 |
The outline of the history of the Scottish Parliament,up to the Union of the Crowns, contained inthe present work, is based upon the Essay on theScottish Parliament, to which was adjudged, in 1899,the Stanhope Prize in the University of Oxford. Alarge portion of it has appeared in the English HistoricalReview for April and July 1900, and to theEditors of that periodical thanks are due for theircourteous permission to reprint. Although the maintheme closes with the Union of the Crowns in 1603,it has been thought desirable to include a brief sketchof the history of the Estates up to the Union of theKingdoms in 1707; but the section dealing with theseventeenth century makes no attempt to do more thanprovide a very brief outline of general tendencies.
The writer wishes to make acknowledgments ofhelpful criticism, received in the later stages of thepreparation of this book, from Professor Lodge ofEdinburgh, and from Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Fellowand Tutor of New College. To Mr. Fisher, his formerteacher (not