XXII. That, by virtue of this treaty, of the peers of Scotland, at the
time of the Union, sixteen shall be the number to sit and vote in the
House of Lords, and forty-five the number of representatives of Scotland
in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain; and that
when her Majesty, her heirs or successors, shall declare her or their
pleasure for holding the first, or any other subsequent, Parliament of
Great Britain, until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make further
provision therein, a writ do issue under the great seal of the United
Kingdom, directed to the Privy Council of Scotland, commanding them to
cause sixteen peers, who are to sit in the House of Lords, to be
summoned to Parliament, and forty-five members to be elected to sit in
the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain.
XXIII. That the aforesaid sixteen peers of Scotland mentioned in the
last preceding article, to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament
of Great Britain, shall have all privileges of Parliament, which the
peers of England now have, and which they, or any peers of Great Britain
shall have after the union.... And in case that any trials of peers
shall hereafter happen, when there is no Parliament in being, the
sixteen peers of Scotland who sat in the last preceding Parliament,
shall be summoned in the same manner and have the same powers and
privileges at such trials, as any other peers of Great Britain; and that
all peers of Scotland, and their successors to their honours and
dignities shall, from and after the union, be peers of Great Britain,
and have rank and precedency next and immediately after the peers of the
like order and degrees in England at the time of the union.