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The case and opinions of James then Viscount of Stair, Lord President of the Court of Session, Sir James Stewart and Sir John Nisbet, in relation to the creditors, apparent heirs, Superiors, Vassals, Tacksmen, and Heirs of Tailzie or Entail of persons forfeited for high treason, inferring Corruption of the Blood, with my Lord Stair and Sir James Stewart their explanations of the Act of Parliament 1690, still in Force, regulating and taking off the rigour of forfeitures as to these Creditors, Heirs of Entail, &c. in Scotland: and acts, or clauses, or articles in the acts of Parliament of Great Britain, in relation to persons forfeited for high treason their Deeds and Conveyances in prejudice of the Crown, and in favour of Heirs, Creditors, Superiors, Vassals, Tenants, and Heirs of Tailzie or Entail, and the Relevancy required in the Indictments of High Treason, inferring Corruption of the Blood, for levying War against his Majesty.
Great Britain. Court of Session.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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A bill for the better ordering of the militia forces in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1775?]- Books
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Pet. - Solicitor of tithes, against Earl of Fife, &c. Inner-house interlocutor. Alex. Kidd, agent. P. clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the additional petition of Mr Andrew Balfour, advocate, his Majesty's solicitor of tithes; ...
Balfour, Andrew, Esquire.Date: 1795]- Books
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Political, philosophical, and satyrical miscellanies. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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To His Grace, the Duke of Queensberry, Her Majesty's high commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament. The petition of George Drummond keeper of the tolbooth of Edinburgh, ...
Drummond, George, Keeper of the tolbooth of Edinburgh.Date: 1705?]- Books
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Broad Scotch, address'd to all true Scots men.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Observator or A dialogue between a country-man, & a landwart school-master, ....
Date: 1705- Books
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Mr. William Innes, merchant in London, - appellant. Messrs. Gibson and Balfour, merchants in Edinburgh, ----- respondents. The respondents case.
Gibson and Balfour (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: 1772]- Books
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Pet. - John Gordon, &c. against Lord Craig's interlocutor. Jo. Innes, W.S. agent. Gordon, clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John Gordon, merchant in Forres, and agent there for the Bank of Aberdeen, and of John Innes, writer to the Signet; ...
Gordon, John, merchant in Forres.Date: 1794]- Books
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Advice to the electors of Scotland, about chusing members for next Parliament.
Date: 1710?]- Books
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Address to the burgesses inhabitants of Edinburgh: Observing the defects of the old sett; and proposing the plan of a bill to Parliament, for an act to restore and establish a Town-Council and Magistracy for the city, and to ascertain the right and manner of electing its Member to Parliament. In which, and notes on it, are observed, some particulars concerning the laws now in force relative to burrow-elections, worthy (perhaps) of the consideration of all the Royal Burghs of Scotland in general, and of the city of Edinburgh (tho' it was to have no new sett) in particular. Occasioned by some things dropt in a letter by Edinus at Berwick to his friend at Newcastle.
Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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Pet. - R. H. Gordon, Esq. &c. against Inner-house interlocutors. T. Manson, agent. Ms., clk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Robert Home Gordon of Embo, Esquire, and others, freeholders of the county of Sutherland; ...
Gordon, Robert Home.Date: 1791]- Books
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Wadset qualification. Pet. & comp. - R. H. Gordon, Esq; against Lieut. Alexander MʻKenzie. T. Manson, agent. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition and complaint of Robert Home Gordon, Esq; of Embo, George MʻKay of Bighouse, Esq; and others, real freeholders of the county of Sutherland; ...
Gordon, Robert Home.Date: 1790]- Books
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Answers or defences for his Majesty's Advocate, on behalf of his Majesty; to the claim of John Gordon, Esq; second son of the deceased Sir James Gordon of Park, to the lands and barony of Park, which sometime belonged to Sir William Gordon of Park, now attainted of high treason, - founded on a tailie.
Scotland. Lord Advocate (Grant : 1746-1754)Date: 1750]- Books
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Pet. - Ro. Home Gordon, Esq. &c. against Inner-house interlocutor. T. Manson, agent. M- clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Robert Home Gordon, Esq; of Embo, George Mackeay of Big-house, Esq; and others, real freeholders of the county of Sutherland; ...
Gordon, Robert Home.Date: 1792]- Books
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Lord Beilhaven's speech in Parliament, the second Day of November 1706. On the subject-matter of an union betwixt the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England. To which is subjoined, Belhaven's Vision. A Poem.
Belhaven, John Hamilton, Baron, 1656-1708.Date: M,DCC,LXVI. [1766]- Books
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The North British intelligencer; or, Constitutional miscellany;
Date: 1776-1777- Books
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The British magazine: or, the London and Edinburgh intelligencer. For the year ...
Date: [1748?-- Books
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Memor. - Thomas Hog, Esq; against Rebecca Hog & Tho. Lashley, Esq; L. Duff, W.S. agent. S. clk. Memorial for Thomas Hog, Esq; of Newliston, defender; against Rebecca Hog, eldest daughter of the late Roger Hog, Esq; of Newliston, and spouse of Thomas Lashley, Esq; of London, and the said Thomas Lashley for his interest, pursuers.
Hog, Thomas, 1742-1827.Date: 1791]- Books
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Mem. - Presbytery of Biggar, against heritors in the parishes of Broughton, &c. G. Cairncross, agent. Teinds. Memorial for the Reverend the Moderator, and the remanent members of the presbytery of Biggar, defenders; against the Right Honourable Robert MʻQueen of Braxfield, Lord Jusice-Clerk [sic], and others, heritors in the parishes of Broughton, Kilbucho, Culter, and Glenholm, pursuers.
Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Biggar.Date: 1794]- Books
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Pet. - James, Earl of Fife, against Lord Justice Clerk's interlocutor. G. Robinson, W.S. agent. H. clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of James, Earl of Fife; ...
Fife, James Duff, Earl of, 1729-1809.Date: 1794]- Books
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A smooth stone from the brook. Or, an humble attempt to prevent backsliding from the principles of the covenanted Church of Scotland, in some letters to the Rev. George Lawson, by the Reverend William Willis, Minister Of The Gospel, Greenock.
Willis, William, approximately 1748-1827.Date: 1799- Books
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The Edinburgh magazine.
Date: -[1762]- Books
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Reflections on the causes and probable consequences of the late revolution in France; with a view of the ecclesiastical and civil constitution of Scotland, and of the progress of its agriculture and commerce. Translated from a series of letters, written originally in French, and dedicated to the National Assembly, by Mons. B-de.
B-de, Mons.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Unto the Honourable the general meeting of the delegates of the landed interest of Scotland: the humble remonstrance and petition of a general meeting of the delegates, appointed by different meetings of the farmers in most of the parishes in Scotland; ...
Date: 1782]