Ayrshire

Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Barons of the Sheriffdom or Shire of Ayr elected commissioners to represent them in the Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates. The number of commissioners was increased from two to four in 1690. After the Union, Ayrshire returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. List of shire commissioners 1605, 1609: Sir John Wallace of Carnell Sources Return of Members of Parliament (1878), Part II. Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (1882). George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, 5 vols (1901–6). The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland. See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union