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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