* No monarch may leave " the dominions of England, Scotland, or Ireland ," without the consent of Parliament.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

Defoe being a Presbyterian who had suffered in England for his convictions, was accepted as an adviser to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and committees of the Parliament of Scotland.

For Scotland he used different arguments, even the opposite of those he used in England, for example, usually ignoring the English doctrine of the Sovereignty of Parliament, telling the Scots that they could have complete confidence in the guarantees in the Treaty.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

He served in Tony Blair's cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1997-1999 and was instrumental in the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

When ratified, this was to give Scotland its first Parliament for nearly 300 years.

On the base of the statue were inscribed the opening words of the Scotland Act: " There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament ", a phrase to which Dewar himself famously said, " I like that!

* 1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland.

In Scotland, his supporters on the Parliament of Scotland increased attempts to force the Covenanters to renounce their faith and accept episcopalian rule of the church by the monarch.

Section 2 of the Scotland Act 1998, for example, specifically refers to ordinary elections to the Scottish Parliament as general elections.

He represented Aberdeenshire in the Parliament of Scotland of 1669 and in the following assemblies, during his first session strongly opposing the projected union of the two legislatures.

The Acts of Union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed by both parliaments in 1707, which dissolved them in order to form a Kingdom of Great Britain governed by a unified Parliament of Great Britain according to the Treaty of Union.

This would give England a local Parliament like those already functioning for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

In 1326, what may have been the first full Parliament of Scotland met.

It abolished both the Parliaments of England and Scotland, and established the Parliament of Great Britain.

Scottish Parliament building, Holyrood, opened in 2004 and intended to evoke the crags of the Scottish landscape and, in places, upturned Fishing industry in Scotland | fishing boats.

Technically, freedom of the press came about because Parliament decided not to renew its Licensing Act in 1695.

In 1695 the practice was banned by an Act of the Scottish Parliament:

In response, a number of remedies were enacted by the Parliament of Scotland: in 1695 the Bank of Scotland was established ; the Act for the Settling of Schools established a parish-based system of public education throughout Scotland ; and the Company of Scotland was chartered with capital to be raised by public subscription to trade with " Africa and the Indies ".

He entered the Royal Regiment of Dragoons, and became a Tory Member of Parliament for Wiltshire from 1685 – 1696 and for Christchurch 1695 – 1701.

Areopagitica did not persuade the Presbyterians in Parliament to invalidate the prepublication censorship component of the Licensing Order of 1643 ; freedom of the press was not achieved until 1695.

Aislabie was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1695, apparently on the assumption he was a Tory, though his political views were somewhat fluid.

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland was established by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland on 17 July 1695, the Act for erecting a Bank in Scotland, opening for business in February 1696.

In 1695, the monopoly power of the Stationers ' Company was diminished, and in 1710 Parliament passed the Copyright Act 1709, the first copyright act.

In 1718, the Duke of Kent's eldest son, Anthony, Earl of Harold ( 1695 – 1723 ), was summoned to Parliament by a writ in acceleration as Baron Lucas, and is usually numbered as the 3rd Baron ( see note below ).

The titles of Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary, and Viscount Lisburne, were created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1695 for John Vaughan, Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire and also Lord Lieutenant of that county.

The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, also called the Scottish Darien Company, was an overseas trading company created by an act of the Parliament of Scotland in 1695.

* Edwin Sandys ( MP for Worcestershire ), Member of Parliament for Worcestershire, 1695 – 1698

He was a member of the Irish Parliament and sat for Charleville between 1695 and 1699.

* Robert Williams ( d. 1763 ) ( c. 1695 – 1763 ), Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire, 1740 – 1741 and 1742 – 1747

Having proven their support for Catholic absolutism by their loyal support for James during the war, and because the Papacy supported the Jacobites after 1693, Irish Catholics increasingly faced discriminatory legislation in the Penal Laws that were passed by the predominantly loyalist and Protestant Parliament from 1695.

They are not therefore truly ' common ' land in the sense that anyone can use them, and this distinction meant that it was often very easy for commonties to be divided between landowners after a series of Acts permitting this were passed by the Parliament of Scotland in the 17th century, most notably the 1695 Act for the Division of Commonties.

* Thomas Foley ( c. 1695 – 1749 ), son of previous, member of Parliament for Hereford, then Herefordshire

In 1695, with the assistance of Massachusetts supporters Henry Ashurst and Sir Constantine Henry Phipps, a bill was introduced into Parliament to do so.

The Protestant-dominated Irish Parliament refused to ratify the articles of the Treaty in 1697, and from 1695 on, updated the penal laws, which discriminated harshly against Catholics.

He was the Tory Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1695, and in 1718 became Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Education Act 1695 ( 7 Will. 3 c. 4 ), was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting Catholics from sending their children to be educated abroad.

Created a baronet in 1688 by King James II, in 1691 he became Commissioner of Excise under King William III, and was Member of Parliament for Colchester from 1695 until 1698.

The 1st Earl and titular 1st Duke of Melfort was outlawed by the de facto régime in Britain on 23 July 1694, and attainted by Act of Parliament on 2 July 1695, when his honours became forfeit.

* John Lee ( 1695 – 1761 ), British Member of Parliament for Newport and Malmesbury