Scots and the UnionEdinburgh University Press, 14 de abr. de 2014 - 480 páginas This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur |
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... House of Commons Journals CRA Central Regional Archives CRB Convention of Royal Burghs CSP Carstares State Papers CSR Church of Scotland Records DA Dumfries Archives DC Drumlanrig Castle ECA Edinburgh Council Archives EUL Edinburgh ...
... House of Commons Journals CRA Central Regional Archives CRB Convention of Royal Burghs CSP Carstares State Papers CSR Church of Scotland Records DA Dumfries Archives DC Drumlanrig Castle ECA Edinburgh Council Archives EUL Edinburgh ...
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... House of Commons for the first three post- union decades. Scholars who have helped, by responding to a query, alerting me to an unfamiliar source, suggesting a new line of enquiry or causing me to revise my views on a particular topic ...
... House of Commons for the first three post- union decades. Scholars who have helped, by responding to a query, alerting me to an unfamiliar source, suggesting a new line of enquiry or causing me to revise my views on a particular topic ...
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... House almost daily by November. Even so, the man who would later earn the title of 'the patriot', Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, rightly admired for his independence of mind and the passion of his sometimes bad- tempered, occasionally ...
... House almost daily by November. Even so, the man who would later earn the title of 'the patriot', Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, rightly admired for his independence of mind and the passion of his sometimes bad- tempered, occasionally ...
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... House, now the National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh's Princes St. What we should note here, however, is the part public opinion played in shaping the twenty-fourth article of union; had these steps not been taken over a matter ...
... House, now the National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh's Princes St. What we should note here, however, is the part public opinion played in shaping the twenty-fourth article of union; had these steps not been taken over a matter ...
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... House this was a matter of concern even to opponents of the proposed union, who feared anarchy and the threat to property this entailed even more than a British Parliament. The measure therefore gave the government its biggest majority ...
... House this was a matter of concern even to opponents of the proposed union, who feared anarchy and the threat to property this entailed even more than a British Parliament. The measure therefore gave the government its biggest majority ...
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ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution | 104 |
a nation in crisis | 139 |
5 The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe? Confrontations and the search for compromise 17005 | 184 |
Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union 17056 | 224 |
the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people | 243 |
the union Parliament and the Scottish nation | 274 |
9 Union in the balance union accomplished | 322 |
Appendix A Membership of the Council of Trade elected 1705 voting record foragainst the court in the thirty recorded divisions in the union Parlia... | 381 |
Bibliography | 392 |
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