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The full text of Act of Union 1707 at Wikisource; Union with England Act and Union with Scotland Act – Full original text; Treaty of Union and the Darien Experiment, University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Library and Archives Canada; Text of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United ...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the year 1707. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7). For other years, see list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland.
This is a list of representative peers elected from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords after the Acts of Union 1707 abolished the Parliament of Scotland, where, as a unicameral legislature, all Scottish Peers had been entitled to sit.
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the years 1700 to 1707. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7). For other years, see list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland.
Scotland became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain under the Acts of Union 1707 from 1 May 1707. It became part of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801. Under the terms of the Act of Union 1707, Scotland was entitled to 45 members of the House of Commons of the Westminster Parliament.
The last general election in pre-Union Scotland was in 1703. First meeting and maximum legal term: Parliament first met on 23 October 1707. The Parliament was due to expire, if not sooner dissolved, at the end of the term of three years from the first meeting of the last Parliament of England, which would have been on 14 June 1708.
An Act to supply a Defect in an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, [c] An Act for raising Fifteen Hundred Pounds, by Mortgage of Lands, in the County of Dorset, for Payment of Debts, and for a further Provision and Maintenance for the Younger Children of Phillip Caldecot Esquire.
Great Britain, also known as the Kingdom of Great Britain, [4] was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 [5] to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, which united the Kingdom of England (including Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of Great Britain and its ...