Original: The unicameral parliament of Scotland is first found on record during the early thirteenth century , with the first meeting for which a primary source survives ( referred to , like the contemporaneous Parliament of England , as a colloquium in the surviving Latin records ) at Kirkliston ( a small town now on the outskirts of Edinburgh ) in 1235 , during the reign of Alexander II of Scotland .
Simplified: House of Commons , House of Lords ) and was mentioned for the first time during the early thirteenth century , and the first meeting one knows of was in 1235 , during the reign of Alexander II of ScotlandK .