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PREFATORY NOTICE.
The commencement of the 17th Century forms a remarkable
era in the history of Scotland. From the succession of the
House of Stewart to the Throne, the authority of the Sovereign
had been at least equally balanced by the power of a factious
nobility, and the ascendancy of turbulent chiefs ; and though
the personal energy of some of the Princes of that House
turned the scale for a time in favour of the Crown, and reduced
the disorderly vassals to a state of comparative tranquillity,
their death, invariably premature, never failed to rekindle the
passions and renew the feuds which had been suppressed, but
not extinguished. The distracted reign of the hapless Mary,
with first the long minority, and afterwards the temporizing
policy of her son and successor, had removed the imperfect
restraint imposed by preceding monarchs on the excesses of
The commencement of the 17th Century forms a remarkable
era in the history of Scotland. From the succession of the
House of Stewart to the Throne, the authority of the Sovereign
had been at least equally balanced by the power of a factious
nobility, and the ascendancy of turbulent chiefs ; and though
the personal energy of some of the Princes of that House
turned the scale for a time in favour of the Crown, and reduced
the disorderly vassals to a state of comparative tranquillity,
their death, invariably premature, never failed to rekindle the
passions and renew the feuds which had been suppressed, but
not extinguished. The distracted reign of the hapless Mary,
with first the long minority, and afterwards the temporizing
policy of her son and successor, had removed the imperfect
restraint imposed by preceding monarchs on the excesses of
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