History of Scotland to the Present Time |
Contents
BOOK | 1 |
State of Scotland at Williams accession | 7 |
Foreign tradeGreenock and Glasgow | 12 |
State of the Highlands | 13 |
Meeting of General Assembly | 17 |
The first Expedition to Darien | 27 |
CHAPTER II | 35 |
Foreign trade | 42 |
Seizure of a Government ship at Burntisland | 245 |
Detachment of Mars forces crosses the Firth of Forth | 261 |
Office of Lord Advocate | 268 |
The Douglas Cause 99 | 274 |
Measures in favour of the Highlands | 280 |
Agricultural progress | 286 |
19 | 289 |
Characteristics of Moderatism | 290 |
Manufactories | 48 |
The Coinage | 55 |
Scottish politicians and Annes accession | 63 |
Prospects of the Jacobites | 70 |
Queensberry and Hamilton | 74 |
Third Session of the Scottish Parliament | 76 |
Appointment of Commissioners of Union | 80 |
Proceedings of the Estates | 86 |
Parliamentary oratory | 92 |
Election of a new Parliament | 96 |
Last attempt to wreck the Treaty | 98 |
Cardinal Alberoni and the Pretender 156 | 99 |
Troubles with the Equivalent | 104 |
Jacobite invasion | 110 |
Case of the Rev James Greenshields | 116 |
17141727 | 123 |
The Earl of Mar and the Government | 129 |
Measures of the Government | 139 |
7 | 141 |
Jacobite attempt on the Castle of Edinburgh | 157 |
Jacobite attempt of 1719 | 158 |
Evictions in Galloway 99 | 165 |
Rivalries of the Argathelians and the Squadrone | 171 |
13 | 173 |
Fall of Walpole and triumph of the Squadrone | 181 |
The two parties in the National Church | 187 |
Lord Advocate | 192 |
The First Secession | 193 |
State of parties | 198 |
Growth of manufactures | 199 |
15 | 202 |
Movements of Prince Charles Edward | 219 |
Unpreparedness of the Government | 225 |
Duke of Argyle appointed CommanderinChief | 230 |
16 | 231 |
New Moderates and Highflyers | 293 |
Prevailing scepticism | 295 |
Effects of the French Revolution in Scotland | 301 |
20 | 305 |
Deposition of Henry Erskine from the Deanship of the Faculty | 307 |
Edinburgh Review published | 311 |
CHAPTER X | 318 |
21 | 320 |
Alleged Conspiracy in Glasgow | 320 |
22 | 327 |
23 | 332 |
CHAPTER XI | 338 |
The General Assembly and the Court of Session | 344 |
Corn Law Agitation | 351 |
The Maynooth Grant | 355 |
The Entail Act of 1848 | 360 |
The Scottish Freehold Movement | 362 |
24 | 369 |
Royal Commission of 1826 | 377 |
25 | 385 |
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