The History of Scotland from the Union to the Abolition of the Abolition of the Heritable Jurisdictions in MDCCXLVII: To which is Subjoined a Review of Ecclesiastical Affairs, the Progress of Society, the State of the Arts, &c., to the Year MDCCCXXVII.Blackie, Fullarton & Company, 1828 |
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Page xii
... desire , a treaty , they began to think of an union in good earnest , though , at no previous period , could they have proposed it with so little hope of success . All possible preparation was of course made for carrying forward the ...
... desire , a treaty , they began to think of an union in good earnest , though , at no previous period , could they have proposed it with so little hope of success . All possible preparation was of course made for carrying forward the ...
Page xv
... desire to be nominated one of the com- missioners himself - and to the secret intrigues of the earl of Marr- perhaps it may be with more truth and propriety ascribed to the diffi- culty of the case operating upon the vanity , the ...
... desire to be nominated one of the com- missioners himself - and to the secret intrigues of the earl of Marr- perhaps it may be with more truth and propriety ascribed to the diffi- culty of the case operating upon the vanity , the ...
Page xxxiii
... desire , " said his lordship , " to be re- solved what are the motives that should engage us to take England's succession upon their own terms ? Is it not strange that no answer should be given to this question , save that when you come ...
... desire , " said his lordship , " to be re- solved what are the motives that should engage us to take England's succession upon their own terms ? Is it not strange that no answer should be given to this question , save that when you come ...
Page xli
... desire the same . XVI . That from and after the Union , the coin shall be of the same standard and value throughout the United Kingdom , as now in England , and a Mint shall be continued in Scotland , under the same rules as the Mint in ...
... desire the same . XVI . That from and after the Union , the coin shall be of the same standard and value throughout the United Kingdom , as now in England , and a Mint shall be continued in Scotland , under the same rules as the Mint in ...
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... by the principal men of the country ; giving them assurances of his Majesty's sincere desire , and letter from the chevalier , directed to all his friends I. B HISTORY OF SCOTLAND . 9 to return to the coast in the course of three ...
... by the principal men of the country ; giving them assurances of his Majesty's sincere desire , and letter from the chevalier , directed to all his friends I. B HISTORY OF SCOTLAND . 9 to return to the coast in the course of three ...
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Page xxiv - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page xxxviii - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Page 284 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 265 - ... be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same...
Page 570 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Page 232 - Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain, in the Protestant Line...
Page xliii - An act for the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling papists from sitting in either house of parliament.
Page xxxviii - ... the said crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person or persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion or professing or marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead.
Page 457 - That it is not sound and orthodox to teach that we must forsake sin in order to our coming to Christ, and instating us in covenant with God...
Page xlii - Queen's Majesty and her Royal successors, may continue a Privy Council in Scotland, for preserving of public peace and order, until the Parliament of Great Britain shall think fit to alter it, or establish any other effectual method for that end.