History of the Transactions in Scotland in the Years 1715-16 and 1745-46: Containing an Authentic Detail of the Dangers Prince Charles Encountered After the Battle of Culloden, Volume 1G. Charles, 1816 - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 |
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Page 75 - of glorious memory, they immediately bethought themselves of the engagements they had entered into, for the guaranty of the succession to the crown of Great Britain, in the Protestant line, so as it is settled by acts of Parliament; and at the same time they considered not only how much it concerns the kingdom of
Page 104 - promise and swear, that I will inviolably maintain and preserve the settlement of the true Protestant religion, with the government, worship,- discipline, rights and privileges of the 'church of Scotland, as established by the laws made there, in prosecution of the claim of right; and particularly by an act, entitled, " Act for securing the Protestant religion
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Page 58 - Most gracious Sovereign, . '* WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the " Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, having a " just sense of the great loss the nation has sustained by the . " death of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Anne, of blessed
Page 371 - JAMES REX, , James the VIII. by the grace of God, of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, King; Defender of the Faith; to all our loving subjects, of what degree or quality soever, greeting:— ' As we are firmly resolved n,ever to lose an
Page 184 - exempting their Majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws) or any dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other
Page 184 - unlawfully,, and with force, demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down, any church or chapel, or any building for religious worship (certified and registered according to the ;statute made in
Page 150 - by such as were in the secret of affairs, " That a resolution was taken, by those who have power to execute it, to pursue him. to the scaffold ; ' that his blood was to be the cement of a new alliance: