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Parliament of Scotland
The
Parliament of Scotland
, officially the
Estates of Parliament
, was the
legislature
of the
Kingdom of Scotland
. The
unicameral
parliament
of Scotland is first found on record during the early 13th century, with the first meeting for which a
primary source
survives (referred to, like the contemporaneous
Parliament of England
, as a
colloquium
in the surviving
Latin
records) at
Kirkliston
(a small town now on the outskirts of
Edinburgh
) in 1235, during the reign of
Alexander II of Scotland
.
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