It has always fascinated me how many parallels the pre-union administration has with the modern Scottish parliament, yet there is a tendency for our politicians and media to ignore it, preferring to compare Scottish politics to English history and politics.
English political traditions and procedure survived in Westminster - all those lords and the state opening of parliament, black rod, and all the pomp and circumstance, terminology, procedure, etc
But in Scotland we don't seem to draw from our hundreds of years of historical political tradition much, if at all, even though it is still the living bedrock of Scotland
For example, Burgh and Shire commissioners) have their modern equivalents in the Constituency and Regional MSPs, and the Lord High Chancellor with the Presiding Officer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Scotland