The Book of Scotland: By William Chambers |
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... Scot- land , both as regarding its component parts , and its judicial authority . This assemblage of representatives is always men- tioned in history under the title of " the Estates , " from the circumstance , that it was composed of ...
... Scot- land , both as regarding its component parts , and its judicial authority . This assemblage of representatives is always men- tioned in history under the title of " the Estates , " from the circumstance , that it was composed of ...
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... Scots , that is , eighteen pence Sterling , which being contuma- ciously resisted , it was increased to twenty merks ... Scot- tish metropolis ; the procession took place in this man- ner : - -The whole of the members belonging to each ...
... Scots , that is , eighteen pence Sterling , which being contuma- ciously resisted , it was increased to twenty merks ... Scot- tish metropolis ; the procession took place in this man- ner : - -The whole of the members belonging to each ...
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... Scot- land . Under the pretence or belief , that the unwieldi- ness of a body composed of three hundred members ... Scots Parlia- ment , see a work entitled the Scots Compendium , or Pocket Peerage , in 2 vols . published in 1826 . LORDS ...
... Scot- land . Under the pretence or belief , that the unwieldi- ness of a body composed of three hundred members ... Scots Parlia- ment , see a work entitled the Scots Compendium , or Pocket Peerage , in 2 vols . published in 1826 . LORDS ...
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... Scot- land did not virtually possess the right of petition . Neither had any individual member of the Estates the li- berty of introducing any measure favourable to the rights of the people , but derogatory to the prerogatives of the ...
... Scot- land did not virtually possess the right of petition . Neither had any individual member of the Estates the li- berty of introducing any measure favourable to the rights of the people , but derogatory to the prerogatives of the ...
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... Scot- land , till this day they are the subject of endless vexa- tion , if not direct oppression ; indeed , we have no hesi- tation in saying , that as these laws are framed and executed in Scotland , there is as much real uncalled for ...
... Scot- land , till this day they are the subject of endless vexa- tion , if not direct oppression ; indeed , we have no hesi- tation in saying , that as these laws are framed and executed in Scotland , there is as much real uncalled for ...
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Page 503 - That the two kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the first day of May which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom by the name of Great Britain...
Page 503 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 504 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown...
Page 504 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 511 - Britain for the time being and that the Court of Admiralty now established in Scotland be continued and that all reviews reductions or suspensions of the sentences in maritime cases competent to the jurisdiction of that court remain in the same manner after the union as now in Scotland until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make such regulations and alterations as shall be judged expedient for the whole United Kingdom...
Page 515 - Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian Church government within the kingdom of Scotland is as follows. OUR sovereign lady and the estates of Parliament considering that by the late Act of Parliament for a treaty with England for an union of both kingdoms it is provided that the commissioners for that treaty should not treat of or concerning any alteration of the worship discipline and government of the Church of this kingdom as now by law established...
Page 518 - That all laws and statutes in either kingdom, so far as they are contrary to or inconsistent with the terms of these articles or any of them, shall from and after the union cease and become void, and shall be so declared to be by the respective Parliaments of the said kingdoms.
Page 519 - Queen's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same...
Page 510 - ... that the laws which concern public right, policy and civil government may be made the same throughout the whole united kingdom, but that no alteration be made in laws which concern private right except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.
Page 518 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God, the true Profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? And will you maintain and preserve inviolably the Settlement of the Church of England, and the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government thereof, as by law established in England?