What is Parliament of Scotland?
{{about|the pre-1707 parliament|the devolved legislative body established in 1999|Scottish Parliament}} [[Image:Parliament House, Edinburgh.JPG|300px|thumb|right|[[Parliament House, Edinburgh|Parliament House]] in [[Edinburgh]], the home of the Estates of Parliament between its completion in 1639 and the [[Union of 1707]].]] The '''Parliament of Scotland''', officially the '''Estates of Parliament''', was the [[legislature]] of the [[Independence|independent]] [[Kingdom of Scotland]]. The [[parliament]] of [[Scotland]] had only one house (cf. House of Commons, [[House of Lords]]) and was mentioned for the first time during the early thirteenth century, and the first meeting one knows of was in 1235, during the reign of [[Alexander II of Scotland]].<ref>K. Brown and R. Tanner, ''History of the Scottish Parliament'', i, 'introduction'.</ref> The parliament, which is also referred to as the '''Estates of Scotland''', the '''Three Estates''' the '''Scots Parliament''' or the '''auld Scots Parliament''' ({{lang-en|old}}), merged with the [[Parliament of England]] in the [[Acts of Union 1707|Acts of Union]] in 1707. This formed the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], which later became the [[United Kingdom]]. ==Related pages== *[[Parliament of England]] *[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *K. M. Brown and R. J. Tanner, ''The History of the Scottish Parliament volume 1: Parliament and Politics, 1235-1560'' (Edinburgh, 2004) ==Other websites== *[http://www.rps.ac.uk/ The Records of the Scottish Parliament], The complete acts and proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, General Council and much other parliamentary material from 1235 to 1707. The publication arose from the work of [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~scotparl/ The Scottish Parliament Project] *[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/history/firstscottishparliament/index.htm The First Scottish Parliament: the Middle Ages – 1707], Scottish Parliament *[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/corporate/history/SPTradition/index.