When Mary queen of shots met her first Parliament.

When Mary queen of shots met her first Parliament, she affaired an institution that had in extent played an influential part in Scottish history. The Scottish Parliament was important for its legislation and taxation, on the contrary it was even more important as the forum in which the political community assembled to take major decisions about in what way the government should be configured. This article uses a newly-discovered list of those attending the Parliament of 1563 as the starting-point for an investigation of the political community in Mary's reign. (1)

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