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Book Acta Dominorum Concilii  A D  1496 1501

Download or read book Acta Dominorum Concilii A D 1496 1501 written by Scotland. Privy Council and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes

Download or read book Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes written by George Neilson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes  Vol  II  Introduction

Download or read book Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes Vol II Introduction written by George Neilson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Dearest Brother

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  • Author : Maurice Lee Jr
  • Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
  • Release : 2010-12-13
  • ISBN : 1788856015
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Dearest Brother written by Maurice Lee Jr and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make policy for Scotland with minimal interference from London and with Scottish interests chiefly in mind. The key players were the secretary of state, John Maitland, who was earl of Lauderdale and resident at court, and his chief agent in Edinburgh, John Hay, earl of Tweeddale, his first cousin, who became his 'dearest brother' when Tweeddale's son married Lauderdale's daughter. A third indispensible member of the group was Sir Robert Moray, their cousin by marriage, King Charles's fellow chemist and close friend. Together the three inaugurated a programme of reform which had some initial success but in the end foundered on political and personal disagreements. Maurice Lee makes effective use of the unpublished correspondence of the three, among themselves and with others, in telling the melancholy tale of the regime of this triumvirate for the first time.

Book The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes

Download or read book The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes written by Scotland. Privy Council and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law  Lawyers  and Humanism

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  • Author : John W Cairns
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-27
  • ISBN : 0748682112
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Law Lawyers and Humanism written by John W Cairns and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns. Essays range from Scots Law from 16th and 17th century Scotland, through to the 18th century influence of Dutch Humanism into the 19th century, a

Book Kinship and Clientage

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  • Author : Alison Cathcart
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2006-05-01
  • ISBN : 9047409191
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Kinship and Clientage written by Alison Cathcart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising principles within clanship. Based on clans located in the central and eastern Highlands this study goes some way to addressing the imbalance in Highland historiography which hitherto has concentrated largely on the west Highlands and islands. Focusing initially on internal clan structure, the study broadens into an analysis of local politics within the context of regional and national affairs, raising questions regarding the importance of land and the nature of lordship as well as emphasising the need for Highland history to be integrated further into broader studies of Scottish society during this period.

Book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of members.

Book Violence  Custom and Law

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  • Author : Neville Cynthia J. Neville
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-06
  • ISBN : 1474471277
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Violence Custom and Law written by Neville Cynthia J. Neville and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries-long hostility between Scotland and England affected the pattern of criminal activity in the Anglo-Scottish Border lands. This is a fascinating account of how the area created and refined a new system of law to deal with the conflict in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.

Book Munro s Western Isles of Scotland and Genealogies of the Clans  1549

Download or read book Munro s Western Isles of Scotland and Genealogies of the Clans 1549 written by Ed R. W. Munro and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goshenhoppen registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths are the sacramental records of the Catholic mission at Goshenhoppen, now Bally, in Washington Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1741, the year the mission was founded, and extending, with some gaps, to 1819, these include sacraments administered at Goshenhoppen and outlying missions in southeastern Pennsylvania, particularly in the counties of Berks, Bucks, Northampton, Montgomery, Lehigh, and Lebanon, an area containing much of the early Germanic population of the state. Goshenhoppen's registers are believed to be not only the oldest extant Catholic church registers in Pennsylvania, but the oldest in existence of the original thirteen colonies Hence their overriding importance in Pennsylvania-German history and genealogy and the reason for their original publication, between 1886 and 1950, in the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. Taken as a whole, the Goshenhoppen registers contain entries relating to about 4,000 baptisms, marriages, and deaths, with references to about 15,000 individuals. Added to this work for the first time is a complete name index.

Book The Scottish Historical Review

Download or read book The Scottish Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.

Book The Scottish Historical Review

Download or read book The Scottish Historical Review written by James Maclehose and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.

Book Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland

Download or read book Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland written by Andrew Mark Godfrey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland. It examines the early judicial role of Parliament, the development of the Session in the fifteenth century as a judicial sitting of the King s Council, and its reconstitution as the College of Justice in 1532. Drawing on new archival research into jurisdictional change, litigation and dispute settlement, the book breaks with established interpretations and argues for the overriding significance of the foundation of the College of Justice as a supreme central court administering civil justice. This signalled a fundamental transformation in the medieval legal order of Scotland, reflecting a European pattern in which new courts of justice developed out of the jurisdiction of royal councils.

Book The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament

Download or read book The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament written by Roland Tanner and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the Scottish Parliament was seen as a weak and ineffective institution – damned because of its failure to be more like its English counterpart. But Roland Tanner shows that the old picture of weakness is far from accurate. In its very different way, the Scottish Parliament was every bit as powerful as the English institution. The 'Three Estates' (the clergy, nobility and burgh representatives who attended Parliament) were able to wield a surprising degree of control over the Crown during the fifteenth century. For instance, they threatened to lock James I's taxation in a box to which he, the king, would have no access, made James II swear not to alter acts of Parliament, and prevented him from using his own lands and wealth as patronage for his supporters, and forbade James III to leave the country. Roland Tanner has avoided a dry constitutional approach. Instead he has sought to bring Parliament to life through the people who attended, the reasons why they attended, and the complex interactions which occurred when all the most wealthy, powerful and ambitious people in the kingdom gathered in one place.

Book James III

Download or read book James III written by Norman Macdougall and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for his failure to do his job in the manner expected of him, and particularly for his reliance on low-born favourites to the exclusion of his 'natural' counsellors, the nobility. Specific complaints included debasement of the coinage, royal hoarding of money, failure to staunch feuds and to enforce criminal justice. Yet James III has also been seen as a major patron of the arts, as Scotland's first Renaissance king, and as the architect of an intelligent and forward-looking foreign policy. In this new study, the author explores all these areas and seeks to explain why King James was challenged by a huge rebellion in 1482, which he narrowly survived, and why he succumbed to a further rising in 1488, which placed his eldest son on the throne as James IV.

Book Lords and Men in Scotland

Download or read book Lords and Men in Scotland written by Jenny Wormald and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1985 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of lords and their men between the feudal era and modern times has perplexed many historians and persuaded some of the decadence of later medieval society. The Scottish nobility of the 15th and 16th century have long been renowned for their self-seeking lawlessness.

Book Law and Opinion in Scotland during the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book Law and Opinion in Scotland during the Seventeenth Century written by John D Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain at least, changes in the law are expected to be made by the enactment of statutes or the decision of cases by senior judges. Lawyers express opinions about the law but do not expect their opinions to form part of the law. It was not always so. This book explores the relationship between the opinions expressed by lawyers and the development of the law of Scotland in the century preceding the parliamentary union with England in 1707, when it was decided that the private law of Scotland was sufficiently distinctive and coherent to be worthy of preservation. Credit for this surprising decision, which has resulted in the survival of two separate legal systems in Britain, has often been given to the first Viscount Stair, whose Institutions of the Law of Scotland had appeared in a revised edition in 1693. The present book places Stair's treatise in historical context and asks whether it could have been his intention in writing to express the type of authoritative opinions that could have been used to consolidate the emerging law, and whether he could have been motivated in writing by a desire to clarify the relationship between the laws of Scotland and England. In doing so the book provides a fresh account of the literature and practice of Scots law in its formative period and at the same time sheds light on the background to the 1707 union. It will be of interest to legal historians and Scots lawyers, but it should also be accessible to lay readers who wish to know more about the law and legal history of Scotland