Publications, Nummer 30

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Pagina xciv - ... and private, general and particular, and warrants thereof, continue to be kept as they are within that part of the united kingdom now called Scotland; and that they shall so remain in all time coming, notwithstanding the union.
Pagina 46 - Hannibal," he exclaimed, calling on the Scottish nobles and commons to unite against the public danger, — " Hannibal is come within our gates : Hannibal is come within the length of this table ; he is at the foot of the throne. He will seize upon these regalia, he will take them as his spolia opima. He will whip us out of this house, never to return again.
Pagina 45 - At the period of the Union, every reader must remember the strong agitation which pervaded the minds of the Scottish nation, who could not, for many years, be persuaded to consider this incorporating treaty in any other view than as a wanton surrender of their national independence. So deep was this sentiment, that a popular preacher in the 1 See Appendix, No.
Pagina lxxx - Scotland, and iffurth thereof within sixty days, next after they are charged by you thereto, under the pain of rebellion, and putting of them to the horn...
Pagina 19 - II., held his that the stone whereupon the Kings of Scotland used to sit at the time of their coronation, and which was then in the keeping of that abbot and convent, should be sent to Scotland, and that he had ordered the Sheriffs of London to receive the same from them by indenture, and cause it to be carried to the Queen Mother ; he commands the abbot and convent to deliver up the said stone to those sheriffs as soon as they should come to them for that purpose.
Pagina 26 - By the Eternal and Almighty God, who liveth and reigneth for ever, we become your liege-men, and truth and faith shall bear unto you, and live and die with you against all manner of folks whatsoever, in your service, according to the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant.
Pagina 50 - ... confirm these forebodings, it would only serve to show that a national affront and injury had been sustained, for which it might be difficult or rather impossible, to obtain any redress. The joy was therefore extreme, when, the ponderous lid of the chest being forced open, at the expense of some time and labour, the regalia were discovered lying at the bottom covered with linen cloths, exactly as they had been left in the year 1707...
Pagina 51 - The discovery was instantly communicated to the public by the display of the Royal Standard from the Castle, and was greeted by the shouts of the soldiers in garrison, and of a multitude of persons assembled on the Castle-hill ; indeed, the rejoicing was so general and sincere, as plainly to show that, however altered in other respects, the people of Scotland had lost nothing of that national enthusiasm which formerly had displayed itself in grief for the loss of these emblematic honours, and now...
Pagina 26 - ... you, and live and die with you, against all manner of folk whatever, in your service, according to the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant." Another long exhortation, pronounced by the minister, in which again the iniquities of the royal house were not forgotten, showed the ill-timed ana intemperate zeal of the Presbyterian party. When this was ended, the King, wearing his royal robes, with the crown on his head, the sceptre in his hand, and the sword of state borne before him, returned...

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