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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... estates that was summoned by William of Orange in in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, to the union Parliament of – . By this means it was possible to identify at what point each member entered Parliament and then ...
... estates that was summoned by William of Orange in in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, to the union Parliament of – . By this means it was possible to identify at what point each member entered Parliament and then ...
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... estates should approve the articles of union, was that united, the peoples of the two kingdoms would be able to resist their enemies and 'support the Protestant interest everywhere and maintain the Liberties of Europe'.12 Conversely ...
... estates should approve the articles of union, was that united, the peoples of the two kingdoms would be able to resist their enemies and 'support the Protestant interest everywhere and maintain the Liberties of Europe'.12 Conversely ...
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... estates on the banks of the firth of Forth, protested in and against the freer trading thrust of the Scottish secretary Henry Dundas's economic measures, arguing that the proposal to remove the taxes on coal shipped ...
... estates on the banks of the firth of Forth, protested in and against the freer trading thrust of the Scottish secretary Henry Dundas's economic measures, arguing that the proposal to remove the taxes on coal shipped ...
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... estates.21 The political machinery of government – on both sides of the border – only worked satisfactorily when its wheels were oiled by places, pensions and promises of patronage.Political management had come into being long before ...
... estates.21 The political machinery of government – on both sides of the border – only worked satisfactorily when its wheels were oiled by places, pensions and promises of patronage.Political management had come into being long before ...
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... estates that laid out their terms for accepting William as monarch of Scotland (he was already on the English throne) expressed the conviction that without a union of 'the bodys politick of the [two] nations' Scotland would revert to ...
... estates that laid out their terms for accepting William as monarch of Scotland (he was already on the English throne) expressed the conviction that without a union of 'the bodys politick of the [two] nations' Scotland would revert to ...
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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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