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A General History of Scotland, (3); From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time
A General History of Scotland From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time - 3 Author:William Guthrie Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1767 Original Publisher: Printed for the author, by A. Hamilton; and sold by Robinson and Roberts Subjects: Scotland History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A. d. 1363. be reflored to all the lands which the greateft of his predeceffors had held in England; the arrears of his ranfom was to be difcharged; the independency of Scotland upon the kingdom of England was to be inviolably preferred, both in church and ftate, with many other fpecial honours and advantages ; but, in cafe of David's demife without iffue, the crown of Scotland was to go to the king of England and his heirs. ) This very extraordinary agreement undoubt edly proves the great confequence of Scotland in the eyes of Edward; but it had a two-fold afpect. Confidering it as a perfonal compact between the two kings, it was equally advantageous and glorious for David. His nephew, the earl of Sutherland's fon, had been, for fome time, dead, and he continued to be ftill on very bad terms with the high-fteward. Edward was his brother-in-law and near relation . t and nothing was omitted in the agreement that could tend to the honour and independency of Scotland. On the other hand, when we view this tranfaction in a national light, it was "XIX. That as often as the fovercign fhould be crowned at Scoon, the articles of this agreement fhould be read to the king and people, and the former fhouid take an oath to keep them inviolable. "XX. In fine, That the king of England was willing to grant, by the advice of his council, whatever elfe the three communities of the kingdom of Scotland fl...« less