Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse reflections upon the ancient state thereof / By John Chamberlayne.

  • Edward Chamberlayne
Date:
1741
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Credit: Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse reflections upon the ancient state thereof / By John Chamberlayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Me CHA: Pisa | of the Givil Government of Scotland ix the refpettivg Courts of Fudicature. ie. HE Privy-Council of Scotland was fometimes (aid to be the Spring of the Government, feeing all Parliaments and Conventions of Eftates wére called by their Advice; and the Writs ifluing under the Great-Seal for fummoning Parlia- ments were directed to them, and the Members elected werd returned by them : But now the Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland being happily effected, the whole Afland is thereby fubje@ed toone Sovereignty, and reprefented lithed Anno Sexto Anne Regina, in the A& of Parliament of Two Kingdoms more compleat: Wherein it was enaéted, That from and aftér the firft Day of May, in thé Year of our Lord One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eight, the Queen’s Ma- jefty; her Heirs and Succeffors fhall have but one Privy- Council in or for the Kingdom of Great-Britain, to be {worn ‘to her Majefty,; her Heirs and Succeffors as Sovereigns of Great-Britain ; and fuch Privy-Council thall have the fame Powers and Authorities as the Privy-Council of England \aw- | and none others. Which A& has alfo pene the Powers of Sum- moning and Returning Members of Parliament in other Hands; The Courts of Fudicature. Che Collehe of Futtice.] This Court, which was inftituted _ by King James V. anno 1532. is one of the moft Noble, De. cent, and Orderly Courts in Earope, both upon Account of its firft Foundation, and of the later Conftitution made by ché faid King Fames V. who by its newer Foundation created ira College of Fuftice, after the Form of the Supreme Sovereign Court of Parliament of Paris, and gave ‘it great Privileges, -Emoluments, and Immunities, Before this fecond Ereétion,; it_was called in Scotland the King’s Council, and the Lord’s were called Lords of Council and Seffion, which Title they {till carry, being at firft no more than a Committee of Parlia- ment, and ambulatory by Circuits; it is fuppofed that ir had mm