Report on the events and circumstances, which produced the union of ... England and Scotland; on the effects of this ... event [by J. Bruce]. [With] Appendix1799 - 80 páginas |
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Página 374 - Report on the Events and Circumstances which produced the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland ; on the effects of this great National Event on the reciprocal interests of both Kingdoms ; and on the political and commercial influence of Great Britain in the Balance of Power in Europe,
Página 305 - XIV. That the Kingdom of Scotland be not charged with any other duties, laid on by the Parliament of England, before the Union, except...
Página 307 - And that no causes in Scotland be cognoscible by the courts of Chancery Queen's Bench Common Pleas or any other court in Westminster Hall and that the said courts or any other of the like nature after the union shall have no power to cognosce review or alter the acts or sentences of the judicatures within Scotland or stop the execution of the same...
Página 136 - ... arms with success, they thought their own prayers had been equally heard, and their cause no less blessed, and that their little republic was as much their own, as the greater one was the heritage of the transatlantic saints. Accordingly, when admonished that all process in the local courts should be in the name of the keepers of the liberties of England...
Página 34 - And these are, the king's majesty, sitting there in his royal political capacity, and the three estates of the realm ; the lords spiritual, the lords temporal , who sit, together with the king, in one house, and the commons, who sit by themselves in another. And the king and these three estates, together, form the great corporation or body politic of the kingdom, of which the king is said to be caput, principium, et finis.
Página 322 - Britain shall make further provision therein a Writ do issue under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom directed to the Privy Council of Scotland commanding them to cause Sixteen Peers who are to sit in the House of Lords to be summoned to Parliament and...
Página 34 - For upon their coming together the king meets them, either in person or by representation ; without which there can be no beginning of a parliament ; and he also has alone the power of dissolving them.
Página 308 - Scotland should remain entire after the union: that Scotland should be represented in the parliament of Great Britain by sixteen peers and forty-five commoners, to be elected in such a manner as...
Página 329 - That the sum of three hundred ninety-eight thousand and eighty-five pounds, ten shillings, should be granted to the Scots, as an equivalent for such parts of the customs and excise charged upon that kingdom, in consequence of the union, as would be applicable to the payment of the debts of England, according to the proportion which the customs and excise of Scotland bore to those of England : That, as the revenues of Scotland might...
Página 273 - Parliament in being at the time of the death foresaid, then the estates or members of the last preceding Parliament, without regard to any Parliament that may be indicted but never met nor constituted, shall meet at Edinburgh on the twentieth day after the said death, the day thereof excluded. . . . And the said Estates of Parliament, appointed in case of the death...