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An Account Of The Proceedings Of The Parliament Of Scotland, which met at Edinburgh, May 6, 1703, containing the state of the country, at the time of their meeting, their proceedings about the toleration. The state of conformity now, compar'd with that, in the reigns of Charles II, and James VII, from the acts of Parliament on that head. The ecclesiastical proceedings in that matter since the Revolution, with an account of our general assemblies. The proceedings about the Act of Security and Limitation by George Ridpath
"Elections were held in Scotland during 1702, and the new Scottish Parliament assembled in Edinburgh on 6 May 1703 and quickly proved a fractious and unpredictable body. The Duke of Queensberry, as Lord High Commissioner - the Queen's personal representative to the Parliament of Scotland - led the Court (government) party, a minority administration, which struggled to steer a course between the opposition parties, the Cavalier (Episcopalian) and Country parties. Queensberry's priority was to show more get Scotland to help fund the war with France. But the Scots were angry about English arrogance and obstruction during the recent union negotiations, especially over the vital issues of trade and the ill-fated Darien enterprise, and these increasingly stormy arguments dominated the proceedings." show less
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