Letters ... to John, Duke of Lauderdale [Ed. by Sir G. Sinclair and C.K. Sharpe]
Letters ... to John, Duke of Lauderdale [Ed. by Sir G. Sinclair and C.K. Sharpe]

Author: Archibald Campbell

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781358938672

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Glencoe and the End of the Highland War
Glencoe and the End of the Highland War

Author: Paul Hopkins

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1788853954

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Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics. Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade following the Massacre, the book transforms our perspective on lowlands politics by showing that the Inquiry was part of a secret patriotic campaign to break the aristocracy's political stranglehold and increase the Scottish parliament's powers.

Letters ... to John, Duke of Lauderdale Ed. by Sir G. Sinclair and C. K. Sharpe
Letters ... to John, Duke of Lauderdale Ed. by Sir G. Sinclair and C. K. Sharpe

Author: Archibald Campbel (9th Earl of Argyll )

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780371933442

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Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660-1685
Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660-1685

Author: Gillian MacIntosh

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2007-03-17

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0748630538

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On 14 May 1660, Charles II, restored to the throne of his father, was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland at the market-cross of Edinburgh, bringing to an end over twenty years of internal upheaval. At the subsequent meeting of the Scottish parliament in January 1661, the ascendant royalist administration sought to abolish all constitutional innovations introduced during the revolutionary period in an attempt to secure the royal prerogative and prevent a repeat of rebellion from below. This book traces the background to the restoration of the monarchy in Scotland, explains why the Scottish political elite were so willing to relinquish power back to the king and assesses the impact of the restrictive Restoration constitutional settlement on subsequent parliamentary sessions in the reign of Charles II. It provides for the first time a detailed account of Charles II's Scottish parliament - who attended and why, what they did and parliament's role under an increasingly authoritarian crown. Tracing the path from the widespread popular royalism that marked the beginning of Charles II's reign to the increasing violence and resistance which the attempted reassertion of the royal prerogative provoked, each session of parliament is set within the political and historical context of the time in which it sat, to provide a fresh perspective on a previously neglected area of Scottish history.