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... authorities that may be consulted . Students of history are well aware of them , and others may be content to trust Dr. Burton and Mr. Gardiner , who have neglected no means of enabling readers to draw their own conclusions . Montrose ...
... authorities that may be consulted . Students of history are well aware of them , and others may be content to trust Dr. Burton and Mr. Gardiner , who have neglected no means of enabling readers to draw their own conclusions . Montrose ...
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... authority over another class , and both Crown and Parliament were as powerless to protect the latter as it was to protect itself . The duties of the sovereign , no less than the liberty of the subject , made a change imperative . But as ...
... authority over another class , and both Crown and Parliament were as powerless to protect the latter as it was to protect itself . The duties of the sovereign , no less than the liberty of the subject , made a change imperative . But as ...
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... authority of the Crown was to give place to the self - appointed authority of a handful of its subjects - when he found , in short , that the Covenant of 1638 was ripening into the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 - he at once ...
... authority of the Crown was to give place to the self - appointed authority of a handful of its subjects - when he found , in short , that the Covenant of 1638 was ripening into the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 - he at once ...
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... authority for supposing that Montrose ever made such a confession . It is not impossible that he may have done so at Oxford when trying to convince the King of Hamil- ton's treachery . Clarendon makes no mention of it in his account of ...
... authority for supposing that Montrose ever made such a confession . It is not impossible that he may have done so at Oxford when trying to convince the King of Hamil- ton's treachery . Clarendon makes no mention of it in his account of ...
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... authority in these matters , it was the " canniness , " or cunning , of Rothes that won Montrose over , though the latter assigned that doubtful honour to Robert Murray , one of the reverend agitators deputed to beat up for recruits to ...
... authority in these matters , it was the " canniness , " or cunning , of Rothes that won Montrose over , though the latter assigned that doubtful honour to Robert Murray , one of the reverend agitators deputed to beat up for recruits to ...
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