Tender of Union

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The Mercat Cross in Edinburgh, near to which the Tender of Union was proclaimed.

The Tender of Union was a declaration of the

War of the Three Kingdoms stating that Scotland would cease to have an independent parliament and would join England in its emerging Commonwealth
republic.

The English parliament passed the declaration on 28 October 1651 and after a number of interim steps an Act of Union was passed on 26 June 1657. The proclamation of the Tender of Union in Scotland on 4 February 1652 regularised the

Restoration of monarchy under Charles II.[2]

Declaration and reaction

On 28 October 1651 the English Parliament issued the Declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, concerning the Settlement of Scotland, in which it was stated that "Scotland shall, and may be incorporated into, and become one Common-wealth with this England". Eight English commissioners were appointed,

Barebones Parliament but it too failed to be enacted before that parliament was dissolved.[3][4]

Approval by the Lord Protector and Parliament

On 12 April 1654, the Ordinance for uniting Scotland into one Commonwealth with England issued by the

George Monck. The Ordinance did not become an Act of Union until it was approved by the Second Protectorate Parliament on 26 June 1657 in an act that enabled several bills.[3][4][5]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-8108-5100-8
    . pp.9, 10
  2. ^ David Plant, The Settlement of Scotland, 1651-60, The British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website. "On 28 March, [1661 the Scottish] Parliament passed an act annulling all legislation passed in Scotland since 1633, the year that Charles I was crowned King of Scots."
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-87-635-0702-8. p.39
  4. ^ a b Oleg Schultz (editor). Scotland and the Commonwealth: 1651-1660 Archontology.org Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today, Retrieved 2008-12-01
  5. ^ Firth, C.H.; Rait, R.S., eds. (1911). "June 1657: An Act touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the twentieth of April, 1653, and before the third of September, 1654, and other Acts". Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911). pp. 1131–1142..

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