The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 6Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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... royal family , tempted the English monarch again to set up his unjust pretensions to be sovereign of Scotland , and gave occasion to a series of wars , fiercer and more bloody than any which had hitherto taken place betwixt the ...
... royal family , tempted the English monarch again to set up his unjust pretensions to be sovereign of Scotland , and gave occasion to a series of wars , fiercer and more bloody than any which had hitherto taken place betwixt the ...
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... royal vassal , not only had the right , of the boroughs , occupied a different place of meeting , but was obliged to attend the Great Council of the and were called the Lower House , or House of Com- kingdom . Accordingly , all the ...
... royal vassal , not only had the right , of the boroughs , occupied a different place of meeting , but was obliged to attend the Great Council of the and were called the Lower House , or House of Com- kingdom . Accordingly , all the ...
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... Royal Family . He proceeded upon the principle , that the Prince should marry the daughter of the Scottish noble who was willing to pay the largest sum of money for the honour of connecting himself with the royal family . The powerful ...
... Royal Family . He proceeded upon the principle , that the Prince should marry the daughter of the Scottish noble who was willing to pay the largest sum of money for the honour of connecting himself with the royal family . The powerful ...
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... royal government . He formed person within it to death . The King was unable to a league with the Earl of Crawford , called Earl Bear- avenge this insult to his authority . die , who had great power in the counties of Angus , Perth ...
... royal government . He formed person within it to death . The King was unable to a league with the Earl of Crawford , called Earl Bear- avenge this insult to his authority . die , who had great power in the counties of Angus , Perth ...
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... royal presence , except the King's Guard , who were placed under the command of that same John Ramsay of Balmain , the only one of his former favourites who had been spared by Bell- the - Cat , and the other nobles , at the insurrection ...
... royal presence , except the King's Guard , who were placed under the command of that same John Ramsay of Balmain , the only one of his former favourites who had been spared by Bell- the - Cat , and the other nobles , at the insurrection ...
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