That treaty was aquired as fraudulently as anything Euros ever foisted on Third World rulers, as was pretty much common knowledge at the time.
Quite honestly if I were a Law Lord I would be sorely tempted to declare it null and void.
Having recently studied the treaty in class I can wholeheartedly agree with this. In fact the treaty was so unpopular that the Scots wanted to sign the treaty at Edinburgh castle but the infamous Edinburgh mob stopped them and basically barricaded them into a house on the royal mile, in what is now the bella italia toilet. There are also some great Daniel Defoe quotes about how everyone in the first few years hated it with a passion. Its about as relevant for 2014 as what I had for breakfast today, but its a fascinating part of the past.
