THE UNION OF THE CROWNS ON THE ACCESSION TO THE UNION OF THE KINGDOMS IN THE REIGN By MALCOLM LAING, Efq. WITH TWO DISSERTATIONS, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL, ON THE SUPPOSED AUTHENTICITY OF OSSIAN'S POEMS. Printed by A. Strahan, Printers Street, FOR T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND; AND 1800. THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. BOOK VII. 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. F 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 VOL. II. B were Public expectations and joy at the restora tion. |