Introduction : parliament and politics in Scotland, 1567-1707 / Keith M. Brown and Alastair J. Mann
1. parliament of 1592 : a crisis averted? / Alan R. MacDonald
2. Constitutional conflict after the union of the crowns : contention and continuity in the parliaments of 1612 and 1621 / Vaughan T. Wells
3. Charles I and the 1633 parliament / John R. Young
4. rise and fall of the Covenanter parliaments, 1639-51 / John J. Scally
5. Arise King John : Commissioner Lauderdale and parliament in the restoration era / Gillian H. MacIntosh
6. 'James VII, King of the Articles' : political management and parliamentary failure / Alastair J. Mann
7. Unconventional procedure : Scottish electoral politics after the Revolution / Derek J. Patrick
8. Party politics and parliament : Scotland's last election and its aftermath, 1702-3 / Keith M. Brown.