The Lord High Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707. A holder of the post would be the third-highest-ranked Great Officer of State in England, below the Lord High Steward and the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord High Treasurer
The Lord High Treasurer bears a white staff as his symbol of office. This is William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act 1707 passed by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries. By the two Acts, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland—which at the time were separate states in a personal union—were, in the words of the Treaty, "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain".
Scottish opposition to Stuart attempts to impose religious union led to the 1638 National Covenant
The 1643 Solemn League and Covenant between England and Scotland
The Battle of Dunbar (1650): Scotland was incorporated into the Commonwealth after defeat in the 1650–1651 Anglo-Scots War
Queen Anne in 1702
