Index to Extracts from the Records of the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland
Author: Convention of Royal Burghs (Scotland)
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 204
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Author: Convention of Royal Burghs (Scotland)
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 204
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 620
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 678
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 912
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 1120
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 204
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 164
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1317039696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExisting studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.
Author: Scotland royal burghs
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 664
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 284
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