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THE UNION OF THE CROWNS ON THE ACCESSION
OF JAMES VI. TO THE THRONE OF ENGLAND,

TO THE

UNION OF THE KINGDOMS IN THE REIGN
OF QUEEN ANNE.

By MALCOLM LAING, Efq.

WITH TWO DISSERTATIONS, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL,
ON THE GOWRIE CONSPIRACY, AND

ON THE SUPPOSED AUTHENTICITY OF OSSIAN'S POEMS.

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Printed by A. Strahan, Printers Street,

FOR T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND; AND
MANNERS AND MILLER, EDINBURGH.

1800.

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THE

HISTORY

OF

SCOTLAND.

BOOK VII.

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New Government and Parliament.-Execution of Argyle, Guthry, Warifton. - Prelacy restored, Prefbyterian Clergy ejected.-Middleton's rapacity, exceffes, and difgrace.-Ecclefiaftical commiffion, military perfecution, and infurrection in the Weft.-Government mitigated and the prefbyterians indulged.-Lauderdale's tyrannical administration. Perfecution of conventicles.-Mitchel's trial.

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VII.

1660.

ROM the civil and religious wars of the two BOOK kingdoms, in which it is feldom poffible to separate the intereft, or the share of either, we return to the domestic transactions of Scotland, whose history, from the restoration to the union, continues unmixed and almost unconnected with English affairs. Many years of undisturbed tranquillity

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