The Convention of Royal Burghs of Scotland, from Its Origin Down to the Completion of the Treaty of Union Between England and Scotland in 1707Co-operative Printing Company, 1884 - 88 pages |
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Page 76 - ... the said crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person or persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion or professing or marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead.
Page 77 - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Page 76 - That the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the first day of May which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven, and for ever after, be united into one Kingdom, by the name of Great Britain ; and that the Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom be such as her Majesty shall appoint, and the crosses of St.
Page 84 - England is now used and that a seal in Scotland after the union be always kept and made use of in all things relating to private rights or grants which have usually passed the great seal of Scotland and which only concern offices grants commissions and private rights within that kingdom...
Page 84 - Scotland shall be used for such purposes and that the privy seal signet casset signet of the Justiciary Court quarter seal and seals of courts now used in Scotland be continued but that the said seals be altered and adapted to the state of the union as her Majesty shall think fit and the said seals and all of them and the keepers of them shall be subject to such regulations as the Parliament of Great Britain shall hereafter make And that the crown...
Page 77 - Majesty's subjects of Scotland, at the time of ratifying the Treaty of Union of the two kingdoms in the Parliament of Scotland, though foreign built, be deemed and pass as ships of the build of Great Britain.
Page 82 - And that no causes in Scotland be cognoscible by the courts of Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas or any other court in Westminster Hall and that the said courts or any other of the like nature after the union shall have no power to cognosce review or alter the acts or sentences of the judicatures within Scotland or stop the execution of the same...
Page 77 - That all the subjects of the united kingdom of Great Britain shall, from and after the Union, have full freedom and intercourse of trade and navigation to and from any port or place within the said united kingdom, and the dominions and plantations thereunto belonging...
Page 78 - ... directly or indirectly, hath any share, part, or interest therein ; which oath shall be made before the chief officer, or officers of the customs, in the port next to the abode of the said owner or owners ; and the said officer or officers shall be...
Page 85 - That all Laws and Statutes in either Kingdom, so far as they are contrary to, or inconsistent with, the Terms of these Articles, or any of them, shall from and after the Union, cease and become void, and shall be so declared to be, by the respective Parliaments of the said Kingdoms.