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ADDENDA. 169
to lecture and comment upon. The wri-
ter, who, as well as his maternal ancestors,
tiave suffered by its operation, ever since
the date of enactment, cheerfully acquies-
ces in it; for, as his grandfather committed
no act of hostility against the reigning fa-
mily, so no corruption of blood is charge-
able against his grandson; and he humbly
hopes, that this act may yet be the means
of Providence, for educing good out of
evil, and for bringing the guilty, the villain-
ous, and fraudulent, to punishment.
It may well be expected, that this ex post
facto act against innocent posterity, would
be the precursor of some extraordinary
measure; and accordingly, by an act of
the same session, setting forth, as usual,
that the augmentation of the patrimony of
the crown, and its revenue, " is great profit
baith to the king's grace and his lieges," a
most sumptuous course of annexation is
served up, consisting of the remaining pro-
perty of the family of the Isles, as already
mentioned; the lands and lordship of Doug-
las, with other earldoms and lordships,
being the whole remaining property of the
to lecture and comment upon. The wri-
ter, who, as well as his maternal ancestors,
tiave suffered by its operation, ever since
the date of enactment, cheerfully acquies-
ces in it; for, as his grandfather committed
no act of hostility against the reigning fa-
mily, so no corruption of blood is charge-
able against his grandson; and he humbly
hopes, that this act may yet be the means
of Providence, for educing good out of
evil, and for bringing the guilty, the villain-
ous, and fraudulent, to punishment.
It may well be expected, that this ex post
facto act against innocent posterity, would
be the precursor of some extraordinary
measure; and accordingly, by an act of
the same session, setting forth, as usual,
that the augmentation of the patrimony of
the crown, and its revenue, " is great profit
baith to the king's grace and his lieges," a
most sumptuous course of annexation is
served up, consisting of the remaining pro-
perty of the family of the Isles, as already
mentioned; the lands and lordship of Doug-
las, with other earldoms and lordships,
being the whole remaining property of the
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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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