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Criminal letters against Alexander Adamson.
Adamson, Alexander.Date: 1784]- Books
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An advertisement from Scotland to England: in a letter from a gentleman in North-Britain, to a member of the British Parliament, in South Britain.
Clark, James, 1660-1723.Date: 1710- Books
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An address to the freemen of the several incorporations of Edinburgh. Fellow-citizens, I need not inform you, that your interest in the government of this city is rather nominal than real. Notwithstanding the number of your representatives in council, matters of the greatest consequence have often been concluded before you knew they were projected; ...
Your Fellow-Citizen.Date: 1763]- Books
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A letter to the freeholders, the burgesses, and all the other inhabitants of Scotland, on the necessity of their instantly making all legal opposition to the bill, now depending in Parliament, for the tripling of the present assessed taxes. By a Scotsman of rank, residen in London.
Scotsman of Rank, Resident in London.Date: 1797- Books
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To the Queen's most sacred Majesty, the Macers of Council and Exchequer in Scotland, now the North part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. ...
Scotland. Macers of Council and Exchequer.Date: 1707]- Books
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The speech of His Grace James Duke of Queensberry, Her Majesties High Commissioner, to the Parliament of Scotland. On Thursday the third of October 1706.
Scotland. High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (1705-1707 : Queensberry)Date: 1706]- Books
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Broad Scotch, addressed to all true Scots men.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Replies for Lieutenant James Stewart, William Rorison of Ardoch, and George Campbell of Airies, freeholders of Wigton; to the answers for Mr. David Dalrymple.
Stewart, James, Lieutenant.Date: 1762]- Books
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The burgess ticket of Buckhaven given to Alexander Bryson, within the College thereof, upon the 32 day of Julius Cæsar, 1698 years. Suits calld, and the court lawfully fenced, by Mother Greg.
Date: 1718]- Books
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The speech of His Grace John Duke of Argyle, &c. Her Majesties High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland. On Tuesday the third of July 1705.
Scotland. High Commissioner to the ParliamentDate: 1705]- Books
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To His Grace, Her Majesties high commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament; the humble address of the magistrates, town council, burgesses and inhabitants of the burgh of New-Galloway.
New-Galloway (Scotland)Date: 1706?]- Books
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Strictures upon the political parties in the city of Edinburgh: together with a statement of authenticated circumstances and facts, which Merit the Particular and Immediate Attention, both of the Honourable Magistrates, and all the Inhabitants of that City. By a friend to the public.
Friend to the public.Date: 1800- Books
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Faction unmask'd, with remarks; As Publish'd in the Year 1737. To which is annex'd, a short but true narrative of several circumstances relating to the late election of members of Parliament, for the borough of Leicester, in the year M.DCC.LIV. with observations.
Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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State of alterations which may be proposed in the laws for regulating the election of Members of Parliament for shires in Scotland. By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Extract from a letter wrote by a Scots gentleman at London, to a member of the Common-Council of Edinburgh, upon the subject of the ensuing election, of a member to serve in Parliament for that city.
Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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The speech of James Earl of Seafield Lord High Chancellor, to the Parliament of Scotland, on Tuesday 11. July 1704.
Findlater, James Ogilvy, Earl of, 1663-1730.Date: 1704- Books
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Letter from a gentleman in Edinburgh to a friend at London, With Relation to the Proposals for Establishing by Law, an equal and certain Fund for Maintenance and Support of the Begging Poor, and Out-Pensioners of the City of Edinburgh.
Date: 1749]- Books
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Remarks for the magistrates and council of the City of Edinburgh, upon a pamphlet, signed by ten gentlemen, entituled, Observations by the committees of the Writers to the Signet, and of the Heretors and Householders of Edinburgh, upon a Memorial for the magistrates and council, concerning the affair of the poors-rate, &c.
Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.Date: 1749]- Books
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The occasional patriot, written in plain scotch, by way of notes upon two papers, lately publish'd, the one intitul'd, Broad scotch, &c. The other, an enquiry into some things that concern Scotland, &c. By an Uncertain Person, who is most certainly not an enemy to his country. Being a serious and jocular dispute between two keen party-men.
Lindsay, Peter, active 1734.Date: 1734- Books
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A serious address to those who profane the Lord's-Day, by worldly business, &c.
Date: 1745?]- Books
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Minutes and proceedings of the General and Sub-committees of the Counties in Scotland, and papers laid before them relative to the distillery.
Scotland. Committee of Counties.Date: 1782]- Books
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His Majesty's most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the twenty fifth day of November, 1762.
Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)Date: 1762- Books
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Reasons of the dissent entred [sic] dy [sic] Hugh Dalrymple of Drummore, ... as assessor for Northberwick, in his own, and the name of the commissioners of the Burghs of Wigtoun, Whithorn and Stranrawer, ...
Dalrymple, Hugh, 1690-1755.Date: 1734- Books
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A serious address to the people of Great Britain. In which the certain consequences of the present rebellion, are fully demonstrated. Necessary to be perused by every Lover of his Country, at this Juncture.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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An answer to the Reverend Mr. George Logan's late treatise on government: in which (contrary to the manifold errors and misrepresentations of that author) the ancient constitution of the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, and the hereditary Succession of its Monarchs are asserted and vindicated; The Legitimacy of King Robert III. is most clearly demonstrated; And Several considerable Mistakes and Falshoods, in our common Historians and others, are discovered and rectified. By Thomas Ruddiman, A.M.
Ruddiman, Thomas, 1674-1757.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]