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[[Image:Kingdom of Scotland Map.PNG|thumb|Map of the Kingdom of Scotland in the [[16th century]]; note, until the later Middle Ages, the traditional capital of Scotland was at [[Scone, Perthshire|Scone]]]]
 
A major feature of English politics from [[1702]] to [[1707]] was the necessity of securing the Hanoverian Succession. The death of King William in 1702 resulted in the succession of [[Anne of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] to the crowns of England and Scotland. Anne's last surviving child had died in [[1700]] and the English Act of Settlement had passed the English Succession over to the [[Protestant]] [[House of Hanover]]. Since it was unthinkable that Scotland and England should again have separate monarchs, the securing of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland became the primary objective in English strategic thinking towards Scotland. By [[1703]] the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the [[Union of the Crowns]], was in crisis. The Scottish Parliament was pursuing both an independent dynastic and foreign policy and the Scottish [[Act of Security]] allowed for the Scottish Parliament to choose a different monarch to succeed to the Scottish crown from that of [[Kingdom of England|England]], if it so wished. Many in Scotland saw this as a desirable position given that the [[Parliament of England|English Parliament]] had executed [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] during the [[English Civil War]] without any reference to the [[Parliament of Scotland|Scottish Parliament]], despite Charles also being [[King of Scots]]. This meant that the Act allowed for the Scottish Parliament to initiate an independent foreign policy during an era of major European warfare like the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] and the [[Great Northern War]]. From the English political perspective, this opened up the possibilities of the restoration of a [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] on the Scottish throne or a Scottish trading and/or military alliance with another power in Europe like [[France]] or the [[Dutch Republic]]. Such an alignment could result in attacks from Scotland, [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] and the continent and compromise English interests abroad. Hence the Scottish `'problem' had to be neutralised and the Hanoverian Succession secured.
 
The Kingdom of Scotland ceased to exist on [[1 May]] [[1707]], following passage of the [[Acts of Union 1707|Acts of Union]], which merged Scotland with England thereby creating the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. The Acts incorporated provisions for Scotland to send [[Peers and Parliament|representative peer]]s from the [[Peerage of Scotland]] to sit in the [[House of Lords]]. It guaranteed that the [[Church of Scotland]] would remain the established church in Scotland, that the [[Court of Session]] would "remain in all time coming within Scotland" and that [[Scots law]] would "remain in the same force as before". Other provisions included the restatement of the [[Act of Settlement 1701]] and the ban on [[Roman Catholics]] from taking the throne. It also created a [[customs union]] and [[monetary union]]. The Act provided that any "laws and statutes" that were "contrary to or inconsistent with the terms" of the Act would "cease and become void."