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 ix
... peace and union to all posterity . " This solemn agreement , however , was very soon broken by the duke of Hamilton and his faction , who invaded England in 1648. He was totally routed at Preston , by the parliamentary army under ...
... peace and union to all posterity . " This solemn agreement , however , was very soon broken by the duke of Hamilton and his faction , who invaded England in 1648. He was totally routed at Preston , by the parliamentary army under ...
Page xi
... peace and war ; " which pro- vided among other things , " That after her majesty's death , and failing heirs of her body , no person , at the same time king or queen of Scot- land and England , shall have the sole power of making war ...
... peace and war ; " which pro- vided among other things , " That after her majesty's death , and failing heirs of her body , no person , at the same time king or queen of Scot- land and England , shall have the sole power of making war ...
Page xiii
... peace , and cooling down those heats which had with great industry , and with too much success , been raised among them . The second , the treaty with England , being what they them- selves had often discovered so strong an inclination ...
... peace , and cooling down those heats which had with great industry , and with too much success , been raised among them . The second , the treaty with England , being what they them- selves had often discovered so strong an inclination ...
Page xxiii
... peace , and the safety of parliament . Against this vote , the earl of Errol protested as an infringement of the privileges of par- liament , of the rights of the city of Edinburgh - and of his right as lord high constable of Scotland ...
... peace , and the safety of parliament . Against this vote , the earl of Errol protested as an infringement of the privileges of par- liament , of the rights of the city of Edinburgh - and of his right as lord high constable of Scotland ...
Page xxx
... peace when our patria is in danger ? " After much more to the same purpose , he adverts to the divisions which pre- vailed over the whole island , and to the immense wealth and growing prosperity of the English nation , in consequence ...
... peace when our patria is in danger ? " After much more to the same purpose , he adverts to the divisions which pre- vailed over the whole island , and to the immense wealth and growing prosperity of the English nation , in consequence ...
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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.