Annals and Correspondence of the Viscount and the First and Second Earls of Stair, Volume 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1875 |
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... Stanhope - Wanted , a cook for the Spanish ambassador , 234 250 . 259 CHAPTER V. Attitude of the Jacobite party towards the Government - Death of Louis XIV . Schemes of the Jacobites counteracted by Stair -Notices of the Insurrection of ...
... Stanhope - Wanted , a cook for the Spanish ambassador , 234 250 . 259 CHAPTER V. Attitude of the Jacobite party towards the Government - Death of Louis XIV . Schemes of the Jacobites counteracted by Stair -Notices of the Insurrection of ...
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... Stanhope , . CHAPTER VIII . . 296 Anomalous position of the British Ministry and of the Regent → Motives dictating the negotiation which resulted in the Triple Alliance - Conduct of the treaty transferred from Paris to the Hague and ...
... Stanhope , . CHAPTER VIII . . 296 Anomalous position of the British Ministry and of the Regent → Motives dictating the negotiation which resulted in the Triple Alliance - Conduct of the treaty transferred from Paris to the Hague and ...
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... Stanhope , The first and second Countesses of Stair , The first and second Earls of Halifax , . The Rt . Hon . Paul ... Stanhope , afterwards Earl of Har- Į Do. Do. Stair Papers - Stuart Papers ( App . to Vol . I of Earl Stanhope's ...
... Stanhope , The first and second Countesses of Stair , The first and second Earls of Halifax , . The Rt . Hon . Paul ... Stanhope , afterwards Earl of Har- Į Do. Do. Stair Papers - Stuart Papers ( App . to Vol . I of Earl Stanhope's ...
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... Stanhope's Memoir of Lady Grisell Baillie . The letter , from which an extract is quoted in the text , is formally subscribed by Duncan Forbes of Culloden ( father of President Forbes ) , as well as by Sir Patrick Hume . It is strongly ...
... Stanhope's Memoir of Lady Grisell Baillie . The letter , from which an extract is quoted in the text , is formally subscribed by Duncan Forbes of Culloden ( father of President Forbes ) , as well as by Sir Patrick Hume . It is strongly ...
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... Stanhope , March 27 and May 15 , 1715 ; Stair Papers , vol . iii . B ; Voltaire , Siècle de Louis XIV . Voltaire , although he doubts it , has brought no authority to discredit the anecdote related by the President Henault in his Abregé ...
... Stanhope , March 27 and May 15 , 1715 ; Stair Papers , vol . iii . B ; Voltaire , Siècle de Louis XIV . Voltaire , although he doubts it , has brought no authority to discredit the anecdote related by the President Henault in his Abregé ...
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Page 343 - Highness' dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm, and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, and authorities, and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the...
Page 345 - The late proceedings and votes of the Parliament of Scotland, contained in an address delivered to the King, signed by the plurality of the members thereof, stated and vindicated.
Page 133 - And out of their lands and empire they shall be careful to root out all heretics, and enemies to the true worship of God that shall be convicted by the true Kirk of God of the foresaid crimes.
Page 197 - And likewise, considering that the actors have barbarously killed men under trust, we humbly desire your Majesty would be pleased to send the actors home», and to give orders to your advocate to prosecute them according to law...
Page 375 - I am confident the parliament never intended to impose contradictory oaths ; therefore I think no man can explain it but for himself. Accordingly I take it in as far as it is consistent with itself and the Protestant religion ; and I do declare, I mean not to bind up myself, in my station, and in a lawful way, to wish and endeavour any alteration I think to the advantage of the church, or state, not repugnant to the Protestant religion and my loyalty ; and this I understand as a part of my oath.
Page 196 - Glenco men has been the original cause of this unhappy business, and hath given occasion in a great measure to so extraordinary an execution, by the warm directions he gives about doing it by way of surprise, and considering the...
Page 366 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Page 343 - I invocate as judge and witness of my sincere intention of this my oath, that I own and sincerely profess the true Protestant religion contained in the confession of faith recorded in the first Parliament of King James the Sixth, and that I believe the same to be founded on and agreeable to the written word of God.
Page 381 - And though perhaps some turbulent spiritts in Scotland may bee desiring to have it soe again, if they please to consult history, they will not find the advantage of those breaches has often been on the side of Scotland.
Page 157 - Stair ; and that it was their opinion that the foresaid certificate could not be received without a warrant from the king ; and that it would neither be safe to Ardkinlas, nor profitable to Glenco, to give in the certificate to the clerk of the council ; and this the Lord Aberuchil confirms by his deposition, but doth not name therein the Lord Stair : And Colin...