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The 1707 Union: support and opposition gentry were mobilized to demand that the estates suspend proceedings until the queen be acquainted with the true extent of public antipathy towards the union, the lobby was forestalled by Hamilton's insistence that any address to the Crown must acknowledge the Hanoverian succession. The same condition was later repeated by Hamilton to renege on his commitment to present a protest against the estates proceeding to ratify the treaty. This protest was intended as a prelude to the wholesale secession of the Country confederation from the estates, a tactic used successfully to scupper proposals for union in 1702, in order to force a general election in which the Court would be obliged to campaign for specific mandate to ratify the treaty of union. Thus, the shortfall of 17 votes in the number opposin'g ratification as against those opposing the first article was essentiallY~' refleW". ~~~bi" Dunipace Denny Caddere Caputh Alyth Lethendy Kinloch disillusionment with the duke of Hamilton. Two months after the treaty of union had been ratified with comparative ease in English parliament, the parliamentary incorporation of Scotland into the united kingdom came into force on I May 1707. The accomplishment of union resulted in a drastic reduction in the number of voting members in the last session of the Scottish estates eligible to sit in both houses at Westminster. In the ~;roll d' K;;~~7rde Inchture Langforgan St. Madoes Kinfauns Lords, the representation of Scottish peers was reduced from 7 to 6. In the Commons, the gentry as shire commissioners d d f 82 were re uce rom to 30 and the burgesses from 66 to 15. Ultimately, therefore, the treaty of union was a self-inflicted act of political laceration on the part of the Scottish • Addresses against the Union: individual parishes o Addresses against the Union: clusters of parishes (with names of parishes alongside) Ecclesiastical/parochial opposition to the Union Total Voting Membership -225 First Article (4 November, 1706) Ratification (16 January, 1707) Voting pattern: treaty of Union AIM 153

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