Papers Relative to the Regalia of Scotland

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Bannatyne Club, 1829 - 24 pagina's
 

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Pagina 26 - I become your liege-man, and truth and faith shall bear unto 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.
Pagina 46 - Britain shall hereafter make ; and that the crown, sceptre, and sword of state, the records of parliament, and all other records, rolls, and registers whatsoever, both public 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 9 - His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom...
Pagina 27 - Another long exhortation, pronounced by the minister, in which again the iniquities of the royal house were not forgotten, showed the ill-timed and 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 to the palace in solemn procession. Such was the ceremony of Charles II.'s coronation, in which, we may presume, that most of the ancient rites, so far...
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 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 lxxxii - 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 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...

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