The History of Scotland: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James VI. to the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne, Volume 1A. Strahan, 1800 - Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 |
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... remained concealed in manuscripts , or buried in the obfcure volumes of ecclefiastical dif- putation . The most prominent events alone are occafionally recorded in English hiftorians ; but the caufes , confequences , and the whole train ...
... remained concealed in manuscripts , or buried in the obfcure volumes of ecclefiastical dif- putation . The most prominent events alone are occafionally recorded in English hiftorians ; but the caufes , confequences , and the whole train ...
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... remained now to be executed ; and certainly the fituation of Scotland afforded ample scope for the exercife of his political wisdom . The country , agitated during his minority with civil diffenfions , and often ravaged by internal war ...
... remained now to be executed ; and certainly the fituation of Scotland afforded ample scope for the exercife of his political wisdom . The country , agitated during his minority with civil diffenfions , and often ravaged by internal war ...
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... remained inflexible . Their oppo- fition was increased by the refufal of the lords to abolish purveyance , and their speeches intimated , in a claffical adage , that the Scots were an happy nation , as the prefence of a court was ...
... remained inflexible . Their oppo- fition was increased by the refufal of the lords to abolish purveyance , and their speeches intimated , in a claffical adage , that the Scots were an happy nation , as the prefence of a court was ...
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... remained in their original fituation of aliens . The union , a pre- mature and therefore an impolitic attempt , ter- minated thus in a federal alliance between the two kingdoms , tacitly established , by a voluntary fub- miffion to the ...
... remained in their original fituation of aliens . The union , a pre- mature and therefore an impolitic attempt , ter- minated thus in a federal alliance between the two kingdoms , tacitly established , by a voluntary fub- miffion to the ...
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... remained incomplete " . Such was the fituation of the church above twenty years ; fuperintended by refponfible over- feers , and regulated by fynodical and general affemblies . The popifh bishops were permitted to retain their temporal ...
... remained incomplete " . Such was the fituation of the church above twenty years ; fuperintended by refponfible over- feers , and regulated by fynodical and general affemblies . The popifh bishops were permitted to retain their temporal ...
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