Travel Back In Time With Me

Chapter- 16

 Then I went to look at the Act of Union, (May 1, 1707), an agreement that worked in the United Kingdom-Scotland under the name Great Britain.

From 1603 England and Scotland were subject to the same monarchy. After the protests in 1688-89 (see the Glorious Revolution) and 1702-03, union projects came close, and in 1703-04 the international conflict sparked a dangerous legal battle between the English and Scottish parliaments. On both sides of the border, however, government officials were beginning to see that the union involved offered the only acceptable solution to the already urgent problem: Scotland's need for economic security and material assistance and England's need for political protection from French invasion and the possible return of Jacotite back. The English debit card was a free trade; Scotland agreed to follow Hanoverian. Both points were immediately accepted by the commissioners appointed by Queen Anne to negotiate the unions, and within three months they had agreed to a detailed agreement (April - July 1706).

The two kingdoms were to unite, the Protestant succession was adopted, and trade was to be free and equal throughout Great Britain and its empires. Subject to certain temporary permits, taxes, direct and indirect, will also be the same; and England compensated Scotland by committing itself to sharing the debt of the English state by paying an estimated £ 398,085 10 dollars. Scots law and the courts of law had to be kept. In a joint parliament, Scotland, due to moderate poverty, was given inadequate representation of 45 ordinary people and 16 monarchs. By the various rules attached to this treaty, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Episcopal Church of England are protected from change.

With just a few amendments, the Scottish Parliament passed the treaty in January 1707, and the English soon passed it. Royal permission was granted on March 6, and the union came into operation on May 1, 1707.