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Lanark was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Lanark, Linlithgow, Peebles and Selkirk formed the Lanark district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

1661–63, 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74: Patrick Bissett, bailie
1678 convention: Thomas Stoddart
1681–82: William Wilkie, commissar, bailie
1685: James Weir, merchant
1686: James Hair
1689 convention, 1689–1702: Thomas Hamilton, bailie
1702–07: William Carmichaell, advocate

See also

List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union

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