¹ ‘Blair Backs Anglo-Scottish Union’, Press Association National Newswire (Press Association, 2007).

² Bruce Lenman, ‘Union, Jacobitism and Enlightenment’, in Rosalind Mitchison, ed., Why Scottish History Matters (Edinburgh, 1991), 48.

³ Allan Macinnes, Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707 (Cambridge, 2007), 12; Christopher Whatley, Bought and Sold for English Gold? (Edinburgh, 2001), 14, 21.

⁴ Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes, eds., The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland [hereafter APS], 12 vols. (Edinburgh, 1814–75), vol. xi, 491.

⁵ Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, History of the Union of England and Scotland, ed. Douglas Duncan (Edinburgh, 1993), 174.

⁶ Hugh Trevor-Roper, ‘The Anglo-Scottish Union’, in From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution (London, 1993), 287.

⁷ Tony Claydon, ‘“British” History in the Post-Revolutionary World, 1690–1715’, in Glenn Burgess, ed., The New British History: Founding a Modern State 1603–1715 (London, 1999), 118.

⁸ Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath, ‘Scotland’s ruine’: Lockhart of Carnwath’s Memoirs of the Union, ed. Daniel Szechi (Aberdeen, 1995), 172, 171.

⁹ James Kinsley, ed., Burns: Poems and Songs (Oxford, 1969), 512.

¹⁰ John Robertson, ed., A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707 (Cambridge, 1995), xiv; see Paul Scott, ‘The “almost miraculous passage” of the Union of 1707’, History Scotland, 7 (July/August 2007), 30–5.

¹¹ Michael Keating, The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union (Oxford, 2009), 45; Stewart Brown, Colin Kidd, and Christopher Whatley, Supplement to Scottish Historical Review [hereafter SHR], 87 (2008), v.

¹² Colin Kidd, ‘Hard Men of the North’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 October 2007, 12.

¹³ P. Hume Brown, ed., The Union of 1707 (Glasgow, 1907), 1.

¹⁴ Richard Finlay, ‘New Britain, New Scotland, New History? The Impact of Devolution on the Development of Scottish Historiography’, Journal of Contemporary History, 36 (2001), 384.

¹⁵ William Ferguson, ‘The Making of the Treaty of Union’, SHR, 43 (1964), 89, 110; Patrick Riley, The Union of England and Scotland: A Study in Anglo-Scottish Politics of the Eighteenth Century (Manchester, 1978), xvi.

¹⁶ Christopher Whatley with Derek Patrick, The Scots and the Union (Edinburgh, 2006), 25.

¹⁷ Colin Kidd, Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland 1500–2000 (Cambridge, 2008), 39, 2.

¹⁸ See Roger Mason, ‘The Scottish Reformation and the Origins of Anglo-British Imperialism’, in Mason, ed., Scots and Briton: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603 (Cambridge, 1994), 161–86.

¹⁹ Jenny Wormald, ‘James VI, James I and the Identity of Britain’, in Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill, eds., The British Problem, c.1534–1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago (Basingstoke, 1996), 148.

²⁰ APS, vol. vi, 42.

²¹ Clare Jackson, ‘The Anglo-Scottish Union Negotiations of 1670’, in Tony Claydon and Thomas Corns, eds., Religion, Culture and National Community in the 1670s (Cardiff, 2011), 35–65.

²² Clerk of Penicuik, History, 81.

²³ Quoted by Whatley, Scots and the Union, 29.

²⁴ Quoted by T. C. Smout, ‘The Road to Union’, in Geoffrey Holmes, ed., Britain after the Glorious Revolution (London, 1969), 183–4.

²⁵ Whatley, Scots and the Union, 29.

²⁶ Hume Brown, Union of 1707, 4.

²⁷ Michael Fry, The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707 (Edinburgh, 2006), 3.

²⁸ See T. C. Smout, Scottish Trade on the Eve of Union, 1660–1707 (London, 1963), and ‘The Anglo Scottish Union of 1707. I: The Economic Background’, and R. H. Campbell, ‘The Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. II: The Economic Consequences’, in Economic History Review, new series, 16 (1964), 498–527 and 468–77.

²⁹ Whatley, Scots and the Union, 139, 140.

³⁰ T. M. Devine, ‘The Union of 1707 and Scottish Development’, Scottish Economic and Social History, 5 (1985), 25.

³¹ Allan Macinnes, ‘The Treaty of Union: Made in England’, in T. M. Devine, ed., Scotland and the Union 1707–2007 (Edinburgh, 2008), 65.

³² P. W. J. Riley, King William and the Scottish Politicians (Edinburgh, 1979), 7.

³³ Macinnes, Union and Empire, 302.

³⁴ Clerk, History, 121.

³⁵ T. M. Devine, Scotland’s Empire (London, 2003), 57; Jeffrey Stephen, Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707 (Edinburgh, 2007), 70, and ‘The Kirk and the Union, 1706–7’, Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 31 (2002), 95.

³⁶ Quoted by Stephen, Scottish Presbyterians, 201.

³⁷ Lockhart of Carnwath, ‘Scotland’s ruine’, 177, 144.

³⁸ Karin Bowie, Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699–1707 (Woodbridge, 2007), 8, 162.

³⁹ See Derek Patrick and Christopher Whatley, ‘Persistence, Principle and Patriotism in the Making of the Union of 1707: The Revolution, Scottish Parliament and the squadrone volante’, History, 92 (2007), 162–86.

⁴⁰ Ian McLean and Alistair McMillan, State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom since 1707 (Oxford, 2005), 33, 45, 58.

⁴¹ Quoted by Whatley, Scots and the Union, 288.

⁴² W. R. and V. B. McLeod, Anglo-Scottish Tracts, 1701–1714: A Descriptive Checklist (Lawrence, KA, 1979); Robertson, ed., Union for Empire.

⁴³ John Kerrigan, Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603–1707 (Oxford, 2008), 326.

⁴⁴ Robertson, ‘Empire and Union: Two Concepts of the Early Modern European Political Order’, in Robertson, ed., Union for Empire, 33.

⁴⁵ Kidd, Union and Unionisms, 68.

⁴⁶ William Ferguson, ‘Imperial Crowns: A Neglected Facet of the Background to the Treaty of Union’, SHR, 53 (1974), 22–44.

⁴⁷ Robertson, ‘Preface’, Union for Empire, xvii.

⁴⁸ Sir George Mackenzie, Earl of Cromarty, Parainesis pacifica (London, 1702), 4.

⁴⁹ Clare Jackson, ‘Conceptions of Nationhood in the Anglo-Scottish Union Debates of 1707’, SHR, 87 (2008) supplement, 61–77.

⁵⁰ [Francis Grant], The patriot resolved (n.p., 1707), 10.

⁵¹ Kidd, Unions and Unionism, 85.

⁵² [Robert Wylie], A letter concerning the union &c. ([Edinburgh], 1706).

⁵³ Quoted by Jackson, ‘Anglo-Scottish Union’, 54–5.

⁵⁴ T. B. Smith, ‘The Union of 1707 as Fundamental Law’, Public Law (1957), 99–121.

⁵⁵ Quoted by Kidd, Union and Unionisms, 83–4.

⁵⁶ Macinnes, Union and Empire, 238.

⁵⁷ See, for example, Jonathan Israel, ed., The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact (Cambridge, 1991).

⁵⁸ Robertson, ‘Empire and Union’, 35.

⁵⁹ John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680–1760 (Cambridge, 2005), 56.

⁶⁰ Andrew Fletcher, ‘An account of a conversation &c.’, in Political Works, ed. John Robertson (Cambridge, 1997), 186.

⁶¹ Macinnes, ‘Treaty of Union’, 54.

⁶² David Hayton, ‘Constitutional Expedients and Political Expediency, 1689–1725’, in Steven Ellis and Sarah Barber, eds., Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State, 1485–1725 (Harlow, 1995), 277.

⁶³ See Christopher Storrs, ‘The Union of 1707 and the War of the Spanish Succession’, in SHR, 87 (2008) supplement, 31–44.

⁶⁴ For example, Paul Scott, ‘An English Invasion would have been Worse: Why the Scottish Parliament Accepted the Union’, Scottish Studies Review, 3 (2003), 9–16.

⁶⁵ Robertson, ‘Empire and Union’, 34.

⁶⁶ Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fourteenth Report, Appendix Part III. The Manuscripts of the Duke of Roxburghe … and the Countess Dowager of Seafield (London, 1894), 207.

⁶⁷ Allan Macinnes, ‘Union Failed, Union Accomplished: The Irish Union of 1703 and the Scottish Union of 1707’, in Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, eds., Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union (Dublin, 2001), 74, 61, 63.

⁶⁸ Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Mar and Kellie (London, 1904), 271.

⁶⁹ [Abel Boyer], The history of the reign of Queen Anne, digested into annals. Year the fifth (London, 1707), 443.

⁷⁰ Macinnes, ‘Treaty of Union’, 69.

⁷¹ McLean and McMillan, State of the Union, 255.

⁷² Jim Smyth, ‘“No remedy more proper”: Anglo-Irish Unionism before 1707’, in Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Roberts, eds., British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533–1707 (Cambridge, 1998), 301.

⁷³ Jim Smyth, ‘The Communities of Ireland and the British State, 1660–1707’, in Bradshaw and Morrill, eds., The British Problem, 261.

⁷⁴ William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland Stated, ed. J. G. Simms (Dublin, 1977), 84.

⁷⁵ Quoted by James Kelly, ‘The Act of Union: Its Origins and Background’, in Keogh and Whelan, eds., Acts of Union, 53.

⁷⁶ Quoted by Macinnes, Union and Empire, 131.

⁷⁷ Kidd, Union and Unionisms, 11, 10.

⁷⁸ Andrew Mackillop, ‘A Union for Empire? Scotland, the English East India Company and the British Union’, SHR, 87 (2008) supplement, 117.

⁷⁹ John Robertson, ‘Union, State and Empire: The Union of 1707 in its European Setting’, in Lawrence Stone, ed., An Imperial State at War: Britain from 1689 to 1815 (London, 1994), 234.

⁸⁰ McLean and McMillan, State of the Union, 60.

⁸¹ Douglas Watt, The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations (Edinburgh, 2007), 220.

⁸² Kerrigan, Archipelagic English, 353.

⁸³ David Douglas, ed., Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1894), vol. ii, 312.

⁸⁴ Bernard Crick, ‘Scotching the Scots’, The Political Quarterly, 79 (2008), 240.