Talk:Parliament of Scotland

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1 General Council (Scotland)
2 Scots language
3 List of Parliaments of Scotland
4 Convention of Estates
5 Articles for each constituency
6 Convention of Estates - poor redirect

[edit] General Council (Scotland)

I have redirected the link "General Council" to the "General Council (disambiguation)" page, although there is no link to the General Council of the Kingdom of Scotland, because it definitely does not refer to ecclesiastical General Councils, which is where the link led previously. J S Ayer 00:45, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scots language

A whole lot of anachronistic references to the Scots language have been added in the medieval period. This is not tenable in the period before the 14th century, and probably not before 1424 when Scots began to be used as the official language in which acts of parliament were written. rjt3 3 December 2005

[edit] List of Parliaments of Scotland

We need a new article - List of Parliaments of Scotland - to match:

Anyone got the relevant info? --Mais oui! 08:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Agree, although it may be a little harder compared to those other articles as a lot of work was done by committee when the Estates were not in session. I still think that we need that article. Benson85 18:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, I see absolutely no reason whatsoever that the list article cannot include meetings of Lords of the Articles, the General Council, the Convention of Estates, and any other committees or related meetings. In fact, the more comprehensive and descriptive the better: better than a bare list of dates. --Mais oui! 19:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The most obvious secondary source (at least to provide a starting point for the enquiry) may be the work on returns of members compiled for Parliament in the Victorian period. I have found the catalogue entry for the copy of the book in the Westminster Reference Library, but it is likely that major reference libraries in Scotland and other parts of the UK would also have a copy.

Westminster Reference library catalogue description - "Members of Parliament : return of the names of every member returned to serve in each Parliament from the year 1696 up to 1876... : also, from so remote a period as it can be obtained up to the year 1696... : Part 2: Parliaments of Great Britain, 1705-1796; Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801-1874; Parliaments and Conventions of the Estates of Scotland, 1357-1707; Parliaments of Ireland, 1559-1800" --Gary J 13:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Convention of Estates

The Convention of Estates link is currently a rather unsatisfactory redirect to The States. Is anyone out there in a decent position to start up the article properly? I ask following this:

Talk:French States-General#Scotland

--Mais oui! 08:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for each constituency

It is high time that we began to think about starting up the articles for the constituencies of the parliament. Perhaps we could start with the redlinks (and replacing the question marks with the relevant info) at the University constituency article:

University	Parliament	Years	No. of Commissioners
Edinburgh	Scotland	?-1707	?
Glasgow	Scotland	?-1707	?
King's College (Aberdeen)	Scotland	?-1707	?
Marischal College (Aberdeen)	Scotland	?-1707	?
St Andrews	Scotland	?-1707	?

Does anyone know the appropriate sources? Are lists of Commissioners from the constituencies available online?

~~In fact, at the moment, we do not even have a list of constituencies, let alone an article on each one. That would be a good start.~~ --Mais oui! 03:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

We do have one list - List of Constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union - although I note that there are no university constituencies listed on it. Is this an error (the source used to compile the list is a late 19th century English one), or were university constituencies abolished prior to the 18th century? Can anyone source list info for pre-18th century Parliaments? --Mais oui! 04:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I can confirm that I did not notice any university constituencies, in the source I used for the list of pre-Union Scottish constituencies. Possibly they were in a different section of the book which I did not check. I have however seen a comment somewhere that King James VI and I enfranchised Oxford and Cambridge Universities, in the Parliament of England, as he was used to university constituencies in Scotland. --Gary J 13:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. --Mais oui! 13:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Convention of Estates - poor redirect

Can anyone turn this unsatisfactory redirect into a cited stub article? I would do it myself, but I would be starting from scratch, so if anyone has some prior knowledge they would likely do a better job!

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