Crown of Scotland

The answer would not simply be copied from London.

Instead, a Convention of the Estates met in Edinburgh in March of 1689 to decide the future of the Scottish Crown.

The convention included nobles, burgesses and the representatives of the shires.

Not everyone agreed on what should happen.

A storm overtook them on their short sea voyage, They were blown out of their course into the Frith of Forth, in Scotland, and found a harbour of refuge on the coast of Fife-shire, a good many miles from the mouth of the Frith, at a place which was afterwards called St. Margaret's Bay, or St. Margaret's Hope.

A few years before this event, the Crown of Scotland had been recovered by Malcolm, the third sovereign of the name, called also Keen Moor, or Great Head.

The tragical end of his father, Duncan, has obtained a wide celebrity from the genius of our immortal Shakespeare.

Young Malcolm fled from the usurper, Macbeth, and found an honorable retreat in England with St. Edward, who further assisted him with an army under the command of Seward, Earl of Northumberland.

By the twelfth century, the Norse language had taken root among the Hebridean Islands and even parts of the mainland coast.

A key turning point came after twelve sixty-six, when the Scottish Crown absorbed the Western Isles from Norway.

Gaelic quickly reclaimed those islands as the dominant speech, supplanting Norse within a few generations.

This confluence set the stage for the legendary unification under King Kenneth MacAlpin in the ninth century, who is often cited as the founder of the Kingdom of Alba.