Charters and Other Documents A.D. 1175-1707, Volume 1, Part 1Scottish Burgh Recorss Society, 1897 |
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Aberdeen accordingly Acts of Parliament add as footnote add Line afterwards Andrews Antea appear appointed April archbishop archbishop Beaton archbishop of Glasgow assembly August authorised barony Beaton bishop burgesses Burton Calderwood castle cathedral charter church column of footnote commissioners convention of burghs Council Records councillors counsall court craft craftsmen crown dated deacon dean of guild December declared duke of Lennox Dumbarton earl earl of Lennox ecclesiastical Edinburgh elected England English estates favour February Glasgow granted Hamilton held Ibid James James Braidwood January John July June king king's kirk lands leet letter liberty magistrates and council March master Mathew merchants merks ministers Montrose November October ordained ordered parish Parliaments of Scotland payment persons Perth presbytery Privy Council Register provost queen ratified referred regality regent Robert royal burghs sall Scotland Scots Scottish Seal Register September Spottiswood Stewart Stirling successors teinds thair town council William
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Page dxii - Cromwell declared that he had not been acquainted with this design, yet, since it was done, he was glad of it and would endeavour to maintain it.
Page cdlxxxviii - Charles was not only a most unscrupulous, but a most unlucky dissembler. There never was a politician to whom so many frauds and falsehoods were brought home by undeniable evidence.
Page cdxxii - it is reported that at my return I intend to alter the government of the Church of England, and to bring it to that form as it is here. Therefore I command you to assure all my servants that I am constant to the discipline and doctrine of the Church of England established by Queen Elizabeth and my father, and that I resolve — by the grace of God — to die in the maintenance of it.
Page cdlxxxviii - He publicly denied that he employed papists : at the same time, he privately sent to his generals directions to employ every papist that would serve. He publicly took the sacrament at Oxford as a pledge that he never would even connive at popery : he privately assured his wife that he intended to tolerate popery in England, and he authorized Lord Glamorgan to promise that popery should be established in Ireland.
Page cdxxxvii - Westminster, by both Houses of Parliament, the Assembly of Divines, and the Scottish Commissioners ; and within a few days afterwards, it was also taken by all the principal Citizens and inhabitants of London.
Page cccliv - The revenues belonging to this city are about ^1000 per annum. This town is built : two streets, which are built like a cross, in the middle of both which the .cross is placed, which looks four ways into four streets, though indeed they be but two straight streets — the one reaching from the church to the bridge, a mile long; the other, which crosseth that, is much shorter.
Page cdlxviii - London with honour, safety, and freedom, and at the same time avowed its own determination ' to maintain monarchical government in his Majesty's person and posterity, and his just title to the crown of England.
Page cccviii - ... fair and high-built house, from the top whereof, being leaded, you may take a full view and prospect of the whole city. In one of these rooms or chambers sits the council of this city : in other of the rooms or chambers preparation is made for the lords of the council to meet in : these stately rooms. Herein is a closet lined with iron ; walls, top, bottom, floor, and door, iron ; wherein are kept the evidences and records of the city : this made, to prevent the danger of fire. This Tole-booth...
Page cdxvii - If my own person only were in danger', he said, 'I would gladly venture it to save Lord Strafford's life; but seeing my wife, children, and all my kingdom are concerned in it, I am forced to give way unto it.
Page dcxiii - ... of them to sell over again, but for their own use allenarly, neither to buy plaiding or cloth in great, to sell again within this liberty, nor to buy tallow above two stones together, except only candlemakers to serve the town, or any honest man for his own use, nor to buy any sheep-skins to dry and sell over again, or hides to salt and sell again, nor any wild skins within this liberty, as tods skins above five together, otters not above three together, and other like skins.