OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA. FOR CATHOLIC COLLEGES AND READING CIRCLES, VOL. III. THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION. BY A. GUGGENBERGER, S. J. Professor of History at Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y. SIXTH EDITION. ST. LOUIS, MO., 1913. OKS ABBREVIATIONS IN THE LISTS OF BOOKS A. C. Q. 9. American Catholic Quarterly. Vol. 9. D. R. '79; 1, 2, 3, 4. = Dublin Review. 1879. January, April, July, October. M. '78: 1, 2, 3. = Month. 1878. Jan.-April, May-Aug., Sept.-Dec. St. 40. = Stimmen aus Maria Laach. Vol. 40,. I. Th. Z. '79. Innsbruck Theologische Zeitschrift. 1879. Vol. 10. Jan., E. H. Q. 10; 1, 2, 3, 4. = English Historical Quarterly. = Edinburgh Review. 1868. Jan., April, July, Oct. Quarterly Review (London). 1891. Jan., April, (3) 1. Union of England and Scotland. The Act of Settlement, by which the crown of England was forever conferred on Sophia, Electress of Hanover, the granddaughter of James I., and her issue, had been passed in 1701. Three years later Scotland passed the Act of Security which declared that, unless certain securities were given for the religion, freedom and trade of Scotland, the Scotch Parliament should, on the demise of Queen Anne, choose a king of her own from among the Protestant descendants of the Stuarts. To prevent this act from being carried into effect, a Parliamentary Union of England and Scotland was effected in the second Parliament of Queen Anne, 1707, though this union met with a strong opposition in Scotland. The measure provided that Sophia and her Protestant heirs should succeed to the crown of the united kingdom. Scotland was to send sixteen elective Peers and forty-five Commoners to the one Parliament of Great Britain. The Act of Union left the laws, the legal administration and the Presbyterian kirk of Scotland untouched. The Union Jack, a combination of the crosses of St. George and of St. Andrew, was adopted as the national flag of Great Britain. |