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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... Poor,Old & Young Men & Women'.15On October ,as the articles were being examined and debated one by one in the Scottish Parliament,the Midlothian land- and colliery-owning Sir John Clerk noted in his journal that the union ...
... Poor,Old & Young Men & Women'.15On October ,as the articles were being examined and debated one by one in the Scottish Parliament,the Midlothian land- and colliery-owning Sir John Clerk noted in his journal that the union ...
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... poor, wasted, misrepresented remnant of the suffering,anti-popish, anti-prelatic, anti-Erastian,anti-sectarian, true Presbyterian Church of Scotland',28 who lived by the word of the Old Testament and were led by ayatollah-like divines ...
... poor, wasted, misrepresented remnant of the suffering,anti-popish, anti-prelatic, anti-Erastian,anti-sectarian, true Presbyterian Church of Scotland',28 who lived by the word of the Old Testament and were led by ayatollah-like divines ...
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... poor returns from estate rentals,the Scottish nobility, which lacked nothing in its social, cultural and political ambitions, was exceptionally heavily dependent upon royal patronage, more so in the straitened economic conditions of the ...
... poor returns from estate rentals,the Scottish nobility, which lacked nothing in its social, cultural and political ambitions, was exceptionally heavily dependent upon royal patronage, more so in the straitened economic conditions of the ...
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... poor in the s;Belhaven appears to have been more concerned about the shortfall in excise revenues – he had a tack of the inland excise and so would feel this personally – due to so many people'falling down dead'.123 Belhaven's ...
... poor in the s;Belhaven appears to have been more concerned about the shortfall in excise revenues – he had a tack of the inland excise and so would feel this personally – due to so many people'falling down dead'.123 Belhaven's ...
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... poor state of the economy, although for obvious reasons they differed about the solution. Lockhart didn't have one; there were Scots however who recognised that Scotland was not a wealthy nation, but who were not prepared to sacrifice ...
... poor state of the economy, although for obvious reasons they differed about the solution. Lockhart didn't have one; there were Scots however who recognised that Scotland was not a wealthy nation, but who were not prepared to sacrifice ...
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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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