THE TREATY OF UNION between SCOTLAND and ENGLAND 1707

Over the coming weeks @AUOBALBA will, one by one, tweet the 25 articles to the Treaty of Union, so we can all see exactly what was written, the language that used, and the relationship said to be struck. #VoidTheUnion

Article I, TOU: 'That the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England shall, upon the first day of May next ensuing the date thereof, and forever after, be united into one Kingdom by the name of Great Britain and the ensigns armorial of the said UK be such as her majesty shall appoint,

and the crosses of & be conjoined in such a manner as Her Majesty shall think fit, and used in all flags, banners, standards, and ensigns, both at sea and land. The use of the by the Navy and Royal Standard of England in Scotland is regrettably "as her Majesty sees fit".

Article II TOU: 'That the succession to the Monarchy of the UK of GB & of the dominions thereunto belonging, after Her Most Sacred Majesty, & in default of issue of Her Majesty, be, remain, & continue to the most excellent Princess Sophia, electoress & Dutchess Dowager of Hanover

and the heirs of her body, being protestants, upon whom the Crown of England is settled by an Act of Parliament made in England in the twelfth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the third, entituled an act for the further limitation of the crown,

and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject: and that all papists, and persons marrying papists shall be excluded from, and for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Imperial Crown of GB, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part thereof.

And in every such case the crown and Govt shall, from time to time, descend to, and be enjoyed by such person, being a protestant, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same, in case such a papist or person marrying a papist, was naturally dead, according to the provision

for the descent of the Crown of England, made by another Act of Parliament in England in the first year of the reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, entituled, An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the Crown.

Article III, TOU: 'That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same parliament, to be stiled the parliament of Great Britain'

Article IV, TOU: 'That all the subjects of the UK of GB 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 UK, and the dominions and plantations thereunto belonging,

and that there be a communication of all other rights, privileges, and advantages, which do or may belong to the subjects of either Kingdom, except where it is otherwayes expressly agreed in these articles.'

Article V, TOU: 'That all ships or vessels belonging to Her Majesties subjects of Scotland, at the time of ratifying the Treaty of Union of the Two Kingdoms in the Parliament of Scotland, though forreign built, be deemed and pass as ships of the build of Great Britain

The owner, or, where there are more owners, one or more of the owners, within twelve months after the 1st May next, making oath, that at the time of ratifying the Treaty of Union in the parliament of Scotland, the same did, in haill or in part, belong to him or them

or to some other subject or subjects of Scotland, to be particularly named, with the place of their respective abodes, and that the same doth then, at the time of the said deposition, wholly belong to him or them, and that no forreigner, 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 owners or owners; & the said officer, or officers, shall be impowered to administer the said oath; & the oath, being so administered

shall be attested by the officer or officers who administered the same, and being registered by the said officer or officers shall be delivered to the master of the ship for security of her navigation, and a duplicate thereof shall be transmitted by the said officer or officers

to the chief officer or officers of the customs in the port of Edinburgh, to be there entered in a register, and from thence to be sent to the port of London, to be there entered in the general register of all trading ships belonging to Great Britain'

Article VI, TOU: 'That all parts of the UK for ever, from and after the Union, shall have the same allowances, encouragements, and drawbacks, and be under the same prohibitions, restrictions, and regulations of trade and lyable to the same customs and duties on import and export;

and that the allowances, encouragements, and drawbacks, prohibitions, restrictions and regulations of trade, and the customs and duties on import and export settled in England when the Union commences shall, from and after the Union, take place throughout the whole of the UK,

excepting & reserving the duties upon export and import of such particular commodities from which any persons, the subjects of either Kingdom, are specially liberated and exempted by their private rights, which after the Union are to remain safe and entire to them in all respects

as before the same; and that from and after the Union no Scots cattle carried into England shall be lyable to any other duties, either on the publick or private accounts, than these duties to which the cattle of England are or shall be lyable within the said Kingdom. And seeing,

by the Laws of England, there are rewards granted upon the exportation of certain kinds of grain, wherein oats, grinded or ungrinded, are not expressed, that from and after the Union, when oats shall be sold at 15s sterling per quarter or under, there shall be paid 2s 6d sterling

for every quarter of the oat meal exported in the terms of the law whereby, and so long as rewards are granted for exportation of other grains, and that the bear of Scotland have the same rewards as barley. And, in respect the importation of victual into Scotland from any place

beyond sea would prove a discouragement to tillage, therefore that the prohibition, as now in force by the Law of Scotland, against importation of victual from Ireland, or any other place beyond sea, into Scotland, do after the Union remain in the same force as now it is,

until more proper and effectuall ways be provided by the parliament of Great Britain for discouraging the importation of the said victual from beyond Sea'

Article VII, TOU: 'That all parts of the United Kingdom be for ever, from and after the Union, lyable to the same excises upon all excisable liquors, excepting only that the thirty-four gallons England barrel or beer or ale, amounting to twelve gallons Scots, present measure,

sold in Scotland by the brewer at 9s 6d sterling, excluding all duties & detailed, including duties & the retailers profit, at 2d the Scots pint, or eighth part the Scots gallon, be not, after the Union, lyable, on account of the present excise upon excisable liquors in England,

to any higher imposition than 2s sterling upon the forsaid thirty-four gallons English barrel, being twelve gallons the present Scots measure, & that the excise settled in England on all other liquors when the Union commences take place throughout the whole of the United Kingdom'

Article VIII, TOU: 'That from & after the Union all foreign salt which shall be imported into Scotland shall be charged, at the importation there, with the same duties as the like salt is now charged with, being imported into England, and to be levied & secured in the same manner

But, in regard the duties of great quantities of forreign salt may be very heavie on the merchants importers, that therefore all forreign salt imported into Scotland shall be cellared and locked up under the custody of the merchant importer and the officers employed for levying

the duties upon salt; and that the merchant may have what quantities thereof his occasion may require, not under a weight of forty bushels at a time, giving security for the duty of what quantity he receives, payable in six months; but Scotland shall, for the space of seven years

from the said Union, be exempted from paying in Scotland for salt made there the duty or excise now payable for salt made in England; but, from the expiration of the said seven years, shall be subject and lyable to proportional duties for salt made in Scotland as shall be then

payable for salt made in England, to be levied and secured in the same manner and with the same drawbacks and allowances as in England, with this exception, that Scotland shall, after the said seven years, remain exempted from the duty of 2s 4d a bushel on home salt, imposed by

ane Act made in England in the ninth and tenth of King William the Third of England. And, if the Parliament of Great Britain shall, at or before the expiring of the said seven years, substitute any other fund in place of the said 2s 4d of excise on the bushel of home salt,

Scotland shall, after the said seven years, bear a proportion of the said fund, and have an equivalent in the terms of this Treaty; and that, during the said seven years, there shall be paid in England, for all salt made in Scotland and imported from thence into England, the same

duties upon importation as shall be payable for salt made in England, to be levied and secured in the same manner as the duties on forreign salt are to be levied and secured in England. And that, after the said seven years, how long the said duty of 2s 4d a bushel upon salt is

continued in England, the said 2s 4d a bushel shall be payable for all salt made in Scotland & imported into England, to be levied & secured in the same manner; and that during the continuance of the duty of 2s 4d a bushel upon salt made in England, no salt whatsoever be brought

from Scotland to England by land in any manner, under the penalty of forfeiting the salt & the cattle and carriages made use of in bringing the same, and paying 20s for every bushel of such salt, and proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity, for which the carrier, as well

as the owner, shall be lyable jointly & severally, and the persons bringing or carrying the same, to be imprisoned by any one justice of the peace by the space of six months, without bail, and until the penalty is paid. And for establishing an equality in trade, that all fleshes

exported from Scotland to England, and put on board in Scotland to be exported to parts beyond the seas, and provisions for ships in Scotland & for forreign voyages, may be salted with Scots salt, paying the same duty for what salt is so employed as the like quantity of such salt

pays in England, and under the same penalties, forfeitures, and provisions for preventing of frauds as are mentioned in the Laws of England; and that, from and after the Union, the Laws and Acts of Parliament of Scotland for pineing, curing, and packing of herrings, white fish,

and salmond for exportation with forreign salt only, without any mixture of British or Irish salt, and for preventing of frauds in curing & packing of fish, be continued in force in Scotland, subject to such alterations as shall be made by the parliament of Great Britain, & that

all fish exported from Scotland to parts beyond the sea, which shall be cured with foreign salt only, and without mixture of British or Irish salt, shall have the same eases, praemiums, and drawbacks as are or shall be allowed to such persons as export the like fish from England;

and that, for encouragement of the herring fishing, there shall be allowed and paid to the subjects inhabitants of Great Britain, during the present allowances for other fishes, 10s 5d sterling for every barrel of white herrings which shall be exported from Scotland, and that

there shall be allowed 5s sterling for every barrel of beef or pork salted with forreign salt, without mixture of British or Irish salt, & exported for sale from Scotland to parts beyond the sea, alterable by the parliament of Great Britain. And, if any matters of fraud relating

to the said duties on salt shall hereafter appear, which are not sufficiently provided against by this Article, the same shall be subject to such further provisions as shall be thought fit by the Parliament of Great Britain.'

Article IX, TOU: 'That, whenever the sum of £1,997,763 8s 4d shall be enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain to be raised in that part of the UK now called England, on land and other things usually charged in Acts of Parliament there for granting an aid to the Crown by a

land tax, that part of the UK now called Scotland shall be charged by the same Act with a further sum of £48,000, free of all charges, as the quota of Scotland to such tax, and so proportionably for any greater or lesser sum raised in England by any tax on land and other things

usually charged together with the land & that such quota for Scotland, in the cases aforesaid, be raised & collected in the same manner as the cess now is in Scotland, but subject to such regulations in the manner of collecting as shall be made by the Parliament of Great Britain'

Article X, TOU: ' That during the continuance of the respective duties on stampt paper, vellum, and parchment, by the several Acts now in force in England, Scotland shall not be charged with the same respective duties.'

Article XI, TOU: 'That during the continuance of the duties payable in England on windows and lights, which determines on the 1st day of August, 1710, Scotland shall not be charged with the same duties.'

Article XII, TOU: 'That during the continuance of the duties payable in England on coals, culm, and cinders, which determines the 30th day of September, 1710, Scotland shall not be charged therewith for coals, culm, and cinders consumed there, but shall be charged with the same

duties as in England for all coals, culm, and cinders not consumed in Scotland.'

Article XIII, TOU: ' That during the continuance of the duty payable in England on malt, which determines the 24th day of June 1707, Scotland shall not be charged with that duty.'

Article XIV TOU: 'That the Kingdom of Scotland be not charged with any other duties laid on by the Parliament of England before the Union, except these consented to in this Treaty, in regard it is agreed that all necessary provision shall be made by the Parliament of Scotland for

the publick charge and service of that Kingdom for the year 1707; provided, nevertheless, that, if the Parliament of England shall think fit to lay any further impositions by way of customs or such excises with which, by virtue of this Treaty, Scotland is to be charged equally

with England, in such case Scotland shall be lyable to the same customs and excises, and have an equivalent to be settled by the Parliament of Great Britain; with this further provision, that any malt to be made and consumed in that part of the UK now called Scotland shall not

be charged with any imposition upon malt during this present war; and seeing it cannot be supposed that the Parliament of Great Britain will ever lay any sorts of burthens upon the UK but what they shall find of necessity at that time for the preservation and good of the whole,

and with due regard to the circumstances and abilities of every part of the UK, therefore it is agreed that there be no further exemption insisted upon for any part of the UK, but that the consideration of any exemptions, beyond what are already agreed in this Treaty, shall be

left to the determination of the Parliament of Great Britain.'

Article XV TOU: 'Whereas by the terms of this Treaty the subjects of Scotland, for preserving an equality of trade throughout the the UK, will be lyable to several customs and excises now payable in England, which shall be applicable towards payment of the debts of England

contracted before the Union, it's is agreed that Scotland shall have an equivalent for what the subjects thereof shall be so charged towards payment of the said debts of England, in all particulars whatsoever, in manner following- that before the Union of the said Kingdoms

the sum of £398,085 10s be granted to Her Majesty by the Parliament of England for the uses aftermentioned, being the equivalent to be answered to Scotland for such parts, of the said customs and excises upon all excisable liquors with which that Kingdom is to be charged upon the

Union, as will be applicable to the payment of the said debts of England, according to the proportions which the present customs in Scotland, being £30,000 per annum, do bear to the customs in England, computed at £1,314,559 per annum and which the present excises on exciseable

liquors in Scotland, being £33,500 per annum, do bear to the excises on exciseable liquors in England, computed at £947,602 per annum, which sum of £398,085 10s shall be due and payable from the time of the Union: and in regard that, after the Union, Scotland becoming lyable to

the same customs and duties payable on import and export, and to the same excises on all exciseable liquors as in England, as well upon that account, as upon the account of the increase of trade and people (which will be the happy consequence of the Union), the said revenues will

much improve beyond the before-mentioned annual values thereof, of which no present estimate can be made; yet, nevertheless, for the reasons aforesaid there ought to be a proportionable equivalent answered to Scotland; it is agreed that after the Union there shall be an acccompt

kept of the said duties arising in Scotland, to the end it may appear what ought to be answered to Scotland as an equivalent for such proportion of the said encrease as shall be applicable to the payment of the debts of England; and for further and more effectuall answering the

severall ends hereafter mentioned, it is agreed that from & after the Union, the whole encrease of the revenues of customs & duties on import and export, & excise upon exciseable liquors in Scotland, over and above the annual produce of the said respective duties as above stated,

shall go and be applied, for the term of seven years, to the uses hereafter mentioned, and that upon the said account there shall be answered to Scotland annually, from the end of seven years after the Union, an equivalent in proportion to such part of the said increase as shall

be applicable to the debts of England; and generally that an equivalent shall be answered to Scotland for such parts of the English debts as Scotland may be hereafter become lyable to pay by reason of the Union, other than such for which appropriations have been made, by the

Parliament of England, of the customs or other duties on export & import, and excises on all exciseable liquors, in respect of which debts equivalents are hereinbefore provided; and, as for the uses to which the said sum of £398,085 10s, to be granted as aforesaid, and all other

monies which are to be answered or allowed in Scotland, as said is, are to be applied, it is agreed that in the first place out of the foresaid sum, what consideration shall be found necessary to be had for any losses which privat persons may sustain,

by reducing the coin of Scotland to the standard and value of the coin of England, may be made good; in the next place, that the capital stock or fund of the African and Indian Company of Scotland advanced, together with the interest for the said capital stock, after the rate of

5 per cent per annum from the respective times of the payment thereof, shall be paid, upon payment of which capital stock and interest it is agreed the said company be dissolved and cease; and also that, from the time of the passing of tbe Act of Parliament in England for raising

the said sum of £398,085 10s, the said Company shall neither trade, not grant licence to trade, providing that, if the said stock and interest shall not be paid in twelve months after the commencement of the Union, that then the said Company may from thence forward trade, or give

license to trade, until the said whole capital stock and interest shall be paid; and, as to the overplus of the said sum of £398,085 10s, after payment of what considerations shall be had for losses in repairing the coin and paying the said capital stock and interest, and also

the hail increase of the said revenues of customs, duties, and excises above the the present value, which shall arise in Scotland during the said term of seven years, together with the equivalent which shall become due upon the improvement thereof in Scotland after the said term

& also as to all other sums which, according to the agreements aforesaid, may become payable to Scotland by way of equivalent for what that Kingdom shall hereafter become lyable towards payment of the debt of England, it is agreed that the same be applied in the manner following;

that all the public debts of the Kingdom of Scotland, as shall be adjusted by this present Parliament, shall be paid: and that £2,000 per annum for the space of seven years shall be applied towards encouraging and promoting the manufacture of coarse wool within these shires which

produce the wool, and that the first £2,000 sterling be laid at Martinmas next, and so yearly at Martinmas during the space foresaid; and afterwards the same shall be wholly applied towards encouraging and promoting the fisheries, and such other manufactures and improvements in

Scotland as may most conduce to the general good of the UK. And it is agreed that Her Majesty be impowered to appoint commissioners, who shall be accountable to the Parliament of Great Britain, for disposing the said sum of £398,085 10s and all other monies which shall arise to

Scotland upon the agreements aforesaid to the purposes before mentioned, which commissioners shall be impowered to call for, receive, and dispose of the said monies in the manner aforesaid, and to inspect the books of the severall collectors of the said revenues, and of all other

duties from whence an equivalent may arise; and that the collectors and managers of the said revenues and duties be obliged to give to the said commissioners subscribed authentic abbreviats of the produce of such revenues and duties arising in their respective districts; and that

the said commissioners shall have their office within the limits of Scotland, and shall in such office keep books containing accounts of the amount of the equivalent, and how the same shall have been disposed of from time to time,

which may be inspected by any of the subjects who shall desire the same.'

Article XVI TOU: 'That from and after the Union the coin shall be of the same standard and value throughout the United Kingdom as now in England, and a mint shall be continued in Scotland under the same rules as the mint in England; and the present officers of the mint continued,

subject to such regulations and alterations as Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, or the Parliament of Great Britain shall think fit.'

Article XVII TOU: 'That from and after the Union the same weights and measures shall be used throughout the United Kingdom as are now established in England, and standards of weights and measures shall be kept by those burroughs in Scotland to whom the keeping the standards of

weights & measures now in use there does of special right belong; all which standards be sent down to such respective burroughs from the standards kept in the Exchequer at Westminster, subject, nevertheless, to such regulations as the Parliament of Great Britain shall think fit.'

Article XVIII, TOU: 'That the Laws concerning regulation of trade, customs, & such excises to which Scotland is by virtue of this Treaty to be lyable, be the same in Scotland, from & after the Union, as now in England; and that all other Laws in use within the Kingdom of Scotland

do, after the Union and notwithstanding thereof, remain in the same force as before (except such as are contrary to or inconsistent with this Treaty), but alterable by the Parliament of Great Britain; with this difference betwixt the Laws concerning public right, policy,

and civil government, and those which concern private right, that the Laws which concern public right, policy, and civil government, may be made the same throughout the whole United Kingdom,

but that no alteration be made in Laws which concern private right, except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.'

Article XIX, TOU: 'That the Court of Session, or Colledge of Justice, do, after the Union and notwithstanding thereof, remain in all time coming within Scotland, as it is now constituted by the Laws of that Kingdom, and with the same authority and priviledges as before the Union,

subject, nevertheless to such regulations for the better adminstration of justice as shall be made by the Parliament of Great Britain; and that hereafter none shall be named by Her Majesty, or Her Royal Successors, to be Ordinary Lords of Session, but such who have served in the

Colledge of Justice as Advocats, or Principall Clerks of Session, for the space of five years, or as Writers to the Signet for the space of ten years, with this provision, that no Writer to the Signet be capable to be admitted a Lord of the Session unless he undergo a private

and publick tryal on the Civil Law before the Faculty of Advocats, and be found by them qualified for the said office two years before he be named to be a Lord of the Session, yet so as the qualifications made, or to be made, for capacitating persons to be named Ordinary Lords

of Session, may be altered by the Parliament of Great Britain, & that the Court of Justiciary do also, the Union & notwithstanding thereof, remain, in all time coming, within Scotland, as it is now constituted by the Laws of that Kingdom, & with the same authority & priviledges

as before the Union, subject, nevertheless, to such regulations as shall be made by the Parliament of Great Britain, and without prejudice of other rights of justiciary. And that all Admiralty jurisdictions be under the Lord Hugh Admiral or Commissioners for the Admiralty of

Great Britain for the time being; and that the Court of Admiralty now established in Scotland be continued; and that all reviews, reductions, or suspensions of the sentences in maritime cases, competent to the jurisdiction of that Court, remain in the same manner after the Union

as now in Scotland, until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make such regulations and alterations as shall be judged expedient for the whole United Kingdom; so as there be always continued in Scotland a Court of Admiralty, such as in England, for determination of all maritime

cases relating to private rights in Scotland, competent to the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court, subject, nevertheless, to such regulations & alterations as shall be thought proper to be made by the Parliament of GB; & that the heritable rights of Admiralty & Vice Admiralties

in Scotland be reserved to the respective proprietors as rights of property, subject, nevertheless, as to the manner of exercising such heritable rights, to such regulations & alterations as shall be thought proper to be made by the Parliament of Great Britain. And that all other

Courts now in being within the Kingdom of Scotland do remain, but subject to alterations by the Parliament of Great Britain; & that a inferior courts within the said limits do remain subordinate, as they are now, to the Supreme Courts of Justice within the same in all time coming

& that no causes in Scotland be cognoscible by the Court of Chancery, Queens Bench, Common Pleas, or any other Court in Westminster Hall; and the said Courts, or any other of be 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; and that there be a Court of Exchequer in Scotland after the Union for deciding questions concerning the revenues of customs and excises there, having the same power and authority in such cases as the Court of

Exchequer has in England; and that the said Court of Exchequer in Scotland have power of passing signatories, gifts, tutories, and in other things, as the Court of Exchequer at present in Scotland hath; and that the Court of Exchequer that now is in Scotland do remain until a new

Court of Exchequer be settled by the Parliament of Great Britain in Scotland after the Union. And that after the Union the Queen's Majesty and Her Royal Successors may continue a Privy Council in Scotland, for preserving of public peace and order,

until the Parliament of Great Britain shall think fit to alter it, or establish any other effectual method for that end.'

Article XX, TOU: 'That all heritable offices, superiorities, heritable jurisdictions, offices for life, & jurisdictions for life, be reserved to the owners thereof as rights of property, in the same manner as are now enjoyed by Laws of Scotland, notwithstanding of this Treaty.'

Article XXI, TOU: 'That the Rights and Privileges of the Royal Burroughs in Scotland, as they now are, Do remain intire after the Union, and notwithstanding thereof.'

Article XXII, TOU: 'That, by virtue of this Treaty, of the Peers of Scotland at the time of the Union, 16 shall be the number to sit and vote in the House of Lords, and 45 the number of the Representatives of Scotland in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain;

and that when Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, shall declare Her or their pleasure for holding the first or any subsequent Parliament of Great Britain, until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make further provision therein, a writ do issue under the Great Seal of the UK

directed to the Privy Council of Scotland, commanding them to cause 16 peers, who are to sit in the House of Lords, to be summoned to Parliament & 45 Members to be elected to sit in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain, according to the agreement in this Treaty

in such manner as, by a subsequent Act of this present Session of the Parliament of Scotland, shall be settled; which Act is hereby declared to be as valid as if it were a part of and ingrossed in this Treaty; and that the names of the persons so summoned and elected shall be

returned by the Privy council of Scotland into the Court from whence the said writ did issue; and that, if Her Majesty, on or before the first day of May next, on which day the Union is to take place, shall declare, under the Great Seal of England, that it is expedient that the

Lords of Parliament of England and Commons of the present Parliament of England should be the Members of the respective Houses of the first Parliament of Great Britain, for and on the part of England, then the said Lords of Parliament of England and Commons of the present

Parliament of England shall be the members of the respective Houses of the first Parliament of Great Britain, for and on the part of England. And Her Majesty may, by Her Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of Great Britain, appoint the said first Parliament of Great Britain

to meet at such time and place as Her Majesty shall think fit, which time shall be not less than 50 days after the date of such Proclamation; and, the time and place of the meeting of such Parliament being so appointed, a writ shall be immediately issued under the Great Seal of

Great Britain, directed to the Privy Council of Scotland, for the summoning the 16 peers and for electing 45 Members, by whom Scotland is to be represented in the Parliament of Great Britain; and the Lords of Parliament of England and the 16 Peers of Scotland, such 16 Peers being

summoned and returned in the same manner agreed in this Treaty, and the Members of the House of Commons of the said Parliament of England and the 45 Members for Scotland, such 45 Members being elected and returned in the manner agreed in this Treaty, shall assemble and meet

respectively in their respective Houses of the Parliament of Great Britain, at such time and place as shall be so appointed by Her Majesty, and shall be the two Houses of the first Parliament of Great Britain; and that Parliament may continue for such time only as the present

Parliament of England might have continued, if the Union of the two Kingdoms had not been made, unless sooner dissolved by Her Majesty. And that every one of the Lords of Parliament of Great Britain & every member of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain in the

first and all succeeding Parliaments of Great Britain until the Parliament of Great Britain shall otherways direct shall take the respective oaths appointed to be taken, in stead of the oaths of allegiance & supremacy, by an Act of Parliament made in England in the first year of

the Reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, entituled An Act for the Abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy & Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths, and make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the declaration mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in England in the thirtieth

year of the Reign of King Charles II, entituled An Act for the more effectual Preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament, and shall take and subscribe the oath mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in England in the

first year of Her Majesties Reign, entituled An Act to declare the Alterations in the Oath appointed to be taken by the Act entituled "An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line, and for extinguishing the hopes

of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret Abettors, and for declaring the association to be determined" at such time and in such manner as the Members of both Houses of Parliament of England are by the said respective Acts directed to

take, make, and subscribe the same, upon the penalties and disabilities in the said respective acts contained. And it is declared and agreed that these words, This Realm, The Crown of this Realm and the Queen of this Realm, mentioned in the oaths and declaration contained in the

aforesaid Acts, which were intended to signify the Crown and Realm of Great Britain; and that in that sense the said oaths and declaration be taken and subscribed by the Members of both Houses of the Parliament of Great Britain.'

Article XXIII, TOU: 'That the foresaid 16 Peers of Scotland, mentioned in the last preceding Article, to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of Great Britain shall have all priviledges of Parliament which the Peers of England now have, and which they or any Peers of Great

Britain shall have after the Union, and particularly the right of sitting upon the tryals of Peers; & in case of the tryal of any Peer on time of adjournment or prorogation of Parliament the said 16 Peers shall be summoned in the same manner and have the same powers & priviledges

at such tryals as any other Peers of Great Britain. And that, in any case any tryals of Peers shall hereafter happen when there is no Parliament in being, the 16 Peers of Scotland who sat in the last preceding Parliament shall be summoned in the same manner & have the same powers

and priviledges at such tryals as any other Peers of Great Britain. And that all Press of Scotland, and their successors to their honours and dignities shall, from and after the Union, be Peers of Great Britain, and have rank and precedency next and immediately after the Peers of

of the like orders and degrees who may be created after the Union, and shall be tryed as Peers of Great Britain, and shall enjoy all privileges of Peers as fully as the Peers of England do now, or as they or any other Peers of Great Britain may hereafter enjoy the same, except

the right and privilege of sitting in the House of Lords, and the privileges depending thereon, and particularly the right of sitting upon the tryals of Peers.'

Article XXIV, TOU: 'That from and after the Union there be one Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which shall be different from the Great Seal now used in either Kingdom; and that the quartering the arms, and the rank and precedeny of the Lyon King of Arms of the

Kingdom of Scotland, as may best suit the Union, be left to her Majesty; and that, in the meantime, the Great Seal of England be used as the Great Seal of the UK, and that the Great Seal of the UK be used for sealing writs to elect and summon the Parliament of Great Britain, and

for sealing all Treaties with forreign Princes and States, and all publick Acts, Instruments, and Orders of State, which concern the whole UK, and in all other matters relating to England, as the Great Seal of 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, commissions, and private rights within that Kingdom; and that, until such Seal shall be appointed by Her Majesty, the present Great Seal of 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, Scepter, and Sword of State, the Records of Parliament, and all other records, rolls, and registers whatsoever, both publick and privat, generall and

particular, and warrands thereof, continue to be keeled as they are within that part of the United Kingdom now called Scotland, and that they shall so remain in all time coming, notwithstanding of the Union.'

Article XXV, TOU: 'That all Laws & Statutes in either Kingdom, so far as they are contrary to or inconsistent with the terms of these Articles, 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'