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164. ADDENDA.
nues to crave, till some of the chief nobi-
lity, considering it as an insatiable disease
preying upon them, and that their whole
property, in all probability, would be cook-
ed up like the earldom of March, and other
prior properties, apply the desperate re-
medy of administring death. The writer,
here, by no means attempts to vindicate,
or extenuate this action ; for he considers
open and avowed hostility preferable to
concealed enmity, and the person of the so-
vereign should have been held sacred, and
the advisers of such measures should have
been responsible. It shews the rude fero-
city of the times.
A long minority ensues, and with it a
moderation of sustenance, till James the
Second assumes the sceptre, and as if the
royal appetite had been doubly increased
by long abstinence, he shews a more than
double portion of his father's spirit, or sto-
mach. Many of the nobility, having the
prospect before their eyes of being devour-
ed, bethink themselves of measures of self-
defence, in support of the ancient laws of
the land, and of their constitutional rights
nues to crave, till some of the chief nobi-
lity, considering it as an insatiable disease
preying upon them, and that their whole
property, in all probability, would be cook-
ed up like the earldom of March, and other
prior properties, apply the desperate re-
medy of administring death. The writer,
here, by no means attempts to vindicate,
or extenuate this action ; for he considers
open and avowed hostility preferable to
concealed enmity, and the person of the so-
vereign should have been held sacred, and
the advisers of such measures should have
been responsible. It shews the rude fero-
city of the times.
A long minority ensues, and with it a
moderation of sustenance, till James the
Second assumes the sceptre, and as if the
royal appetite had been doubly increased
by long abstinence, he shews a more than
double portion of his father's spirit, or sto-
mach. Many of the nobility, having the
prospect before their eyes of being devour-
ed, bethink themselves of measures of self-
defence, in support of the ancient laws of
the land, and of their constitutional rights
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| Description | A poem in five cantos: being the origin and history of the family, alias Donald, Lord of the Isles, carried down to its extinction, with a continuation of the family of Keppoch; the whole combined with the history of Scotland, with notes and references, and concluding with an analysis of the Scotch acts of Parliament, relative to the Douglas association; and an address to His Royal Highness the prince regent. By John Paul Macdonald. Montrose : Printed for the author by J. Watt, 1815. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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