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Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs, 1555; 1631-1648 (Hardcover)
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Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs, 1555; 1631-1648 (Hardcover)
Series: Scottish History Society 6th Series
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The convention of the royal burghs of Scotland was a national
representative assembly of parliamentary towns that was unique in
Europe. It met in plenary session at least once every year by the
end of the sixteenth century, as well as convening in ad hoc
sessions for specific business. It had a wide range of
responsibilities, including defence of the burghs' collective and
individual trading privileges, lobbying central government,
promoting manufactures and trade, arbitrating in disputes between
burghs, apportioning national taxes among its members,
co-ordinating the raising of money for public building projects
within burghs, and maintaining and regulating the Scottish staple
port at Veere on what was then the island of Walcheren in the
province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. When much of its records
were published in the nineteenth century, minutes from before the
1580s were fragmentary and a whole volume (covering the years
1631-1649) was lost. This volume goes some way to rectifying these
deficiencies by making available in print, for the first time, the
records of a convention at Perth in 1555, those of most of the
conventions between 1631 and 1636, the minutes of a convention from
1647 and some other papers from the 1640s. They are presented here
with an introduction and elucidatory notes. Alan MacDonald is
senior lecturer in History at the University of Dundee; Mary
Verschuur lectured in the department of History at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha.
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