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 viii
... towns were by his orders taken off and turned into ploughshares . Finding , however , his kingcraft not so highly relished by his English as it had been by his Scotish subjects , he applied for assistance to the English parliament ...
... towns were by his orders taken off and turned into ploughshares . Finding , however , his kingcraft not so highly relished by his English as it had been by his Scotish subjects , he applied for assistance to the English parliament ...
Page xxii
... town guard arriving after a while , secured his house and protected his family from farther outrage , but the crowd kept possession of the streets during the greater part of the night , threatening destruction to all whom they supposed ...
... town guard arriving after a while , secured his house and protected his family from farther outrage , but the crowd kept possession of the streets during the greater part of the night , threatening destruction to all whom they supposed ...
Page xxiii
... town , parish , hamlet , and corporation , inveighing in the strongest terms against the measure , as necessarily involving the entire ruin of the country in all its interests . That which gave the Jacobites the greatest hopes , however ...
... town , parish , hamlet , and corporation , inveighing in the strongest terms against the measure , as necessarily involving the entire ruin of the country in all its interests . That which gave the Jacobites the greatest hopes , however ...
Page xxiv
... town , searched the houses of all such as they supposed friendly to the Union , for arms , which , wherever they found , they carried away , and headed by a no- • Defoe's IIistory of the Union , folio ed . Article - Carrying on of the ...
... town , searched the houses of all such as they supposed friendly to the Union , for arms , which , wherever they found , they carried away , and headed by a no- • Defoe's IIistory of the Union , folio ed . Article - Carrying on of the ...
Page xxviii
... towns and fortified places , exacted tribute through the greatest part of England , now walking in the court of requests , like so many English attornies ; laying aside their walking swords when in company with the English peers , lest ...
... towns and fortified places , exacted tribute through the greatest part of England , now walking in the court of requests , like so many English attornies ; laying aside their walking swords when in company with the English peers , lest ...
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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.