THE

HISTORY

OF

SCOTLAND,

FROM THE

UNION OF THE CROWNS

ON THE

ACCESSION OF JAMES VI. TO THE THRONE OF ENGLAND,

London:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, NO. 22 POULTRY ;

AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH..

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T. Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet Street,

CONTENTS.

VOL. IV.

BOOK VII.

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New Government and Parliament.-Execution of

Argyle, Guthry, Wariston.-Prelacy restored.

Presbyterian Clergy ejected.-Middleton's Ra-

pacity, Excesses, and Disgrace.-Ecclesiastical

Commission, military Persecution, and Insurrec-

tion in the West.-Government mitigated and

the Presbyterians indulged.-Lauderdale's ty-

rannical administration.-Persecution of Con
venticles.-Mitchell's Trial.

BOOK VIII.

Introduction of the Highlanders, and their Seve-

rities in the West.-Murder of Sharp.-In-

surrection of Bothwell Bridge-Suppressed by

Monmouth-Duke of York's Administration.-

Act of Succession and the Test-Argyle's Trial

and Escape.-Ryehouse Plot.-Prostitution of

Justice, Executions, Extortions, Murders in

the Fields-Death and Character of Charles II. 81

BOOK IX.

Accession, and Parliament of James.—Argyle's

Invasion and Execution.- Opposition to the

Repeal of the Penal Laws and the Test.-

Dispensing Powers exerted.-Origin and Pro-

gress of the Revolution in England-in Scot-

land.-Convention of Estates.-Forfeiture of

the Crown by James,-its Settlement on the

Prince and Princess of Orange.

BOOK X.

Convention turned into a Parliament.-Insurrec

tion.-Dundee's Victory and Death.-- Mont-

gomery's Plots.-Redress of Grievances, and

Presbytery restored.-Massacre of Glencoe.-

Settlement of Darien.-National Distress and

Despair.-Death of James.-Death and Cha-

racter of William.

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211

BOOK XI.

Accession of Anne.-New Paliament.-Act of

Security proposed.-Passed.-Alarm-and

Acts in England against the Scots.-Protestant

Succession attempted in Parliament.-Postponed

for a Treaty of Union.-Negociation of the Com-

missioners.-Articles examined in Parliament.

Debates and Arguments of each Party on an

Union.-Insurrection projected and disappoint-

ed.-Union ratified by the Scotch-and Eng-

lish Parliaments.-Completed by dissolving the

Privy Council, and introducing the English

Treason Laws.-Review of its Effects.--Con-

clusion of the whole.

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NOTES and ILLUSTRATIONS.

DISSERTATION on the supposed AUTHENTICITY

of OSSIAN'S POEMS

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