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Parliament 1660 to 1707 The Scottish parliament ofthe Restoration consisted ofthe lords, the bishops (from 1662 to 1689) and the representatives ofthe shires and the burghs. The bishop had been restored to their rights in 1662. Earlier, in 1633, the new bishopric of Edinburgh had been created: it consisted ofthat part ofthe archbishopric ofSt. Andrews which lay to the south of the Firth of Forth. The maps, which show the distribution of the members of (;> P I sles Isles Bishoprics • Episcopal sees • Archepiscopal sees parliament before the Union, are based on the sederunts of 1662 and 1706. After 1707, the Scots were accorded a smaller number ofseat in the united parliament ofGreat Britain. Thu ,in the House ofLords, there were only sixteen Scotti h peers and they were elected by the whole body of Scottish peers. This system lasted in substance until the Peerage Act 1963 which permitted all Scottish peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. thness Aberdeen Br echin • Brechin D unkeld ,

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