Lot 27
MINUTES OF THE COMMISSION THAT DREW UP THE ARTICLE OF UNION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND......
Antiquarian Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 23 September 2000 from 12:00 BST
Description
MINUTES OF THE COMMISSION THAT DREW UP THE ARTICLE OF UNION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND......
137 manuscript pages (including 4 missing leaves supplied in photostat from the copy in the Scottish Records Office)....... watermarked paper 'VI', contemporary vellum, folio [1707]
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Footnote
This copy of the Act possibly belonged to one of the English Commissioners as the vellum spine is entitled "Union with Scotland". This copy is deemed to be written in the same hand as the official signed copies of the minutes in the Public Record Office.
A Manuscript note on the front endpaper states
"The Terms and Articles with all the Ceremony at Particular Passages in the Treaty and Completion of the Union betwixt England and Scotland which were mutually said and done by the Commissioners (here named) of both Kingdoms, beginning the 10th Day of April 1706, ending the 25th Day of July following."