Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs: 1661-1683.- v. 2. 1683-1688T. Constable, printer to Her Majesty, 1848 - 922 pages |
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Page v - VISCOUNT ACHESON. VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES ADAM. THE EARL OF ASHBURNHAM. LORD BELHAVEN AND HAMILTON. WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ. BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ. THE MARQUESS OF BREADALBANE.
Page vi - THE EARL OF HADDINGTON. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON. SIR THOMAS BUCHAN HEPBURN, BART. JAMES MAITLAND HOG, ESQ. RIGHT HON. JOHN HOPE, LORD JUSTICE-CLERK. COSMO INNES, ESQ. DAVID IRVING, LL.D. HON. JAMES IVORY, LORD IVORY. DAVID LAING, ESQ. [SECRETARY.] JOHN BAILEY LANGHORNE, ESQ.
Page xxi - Collected by the Honourable Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, one of the Senators of the College of Justice : Containing also the Transactions of the Privy Council, of the Criminal Court, and Court of Exchequer, and interspersed with a variety of Historical Facts, and many curious Anecdotes.
Page vii - THE EARL OF MINTO. HON. SIR JW MONCREIFF, BART., LORD MONCREIFF. JAMES PATRICK MUIRHEAD, ESQ. HON. SIR JOHN A. MURRAY, LORD MURRAY. WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ.
Page xi - Preface above alluded to, that " with the view of presenting a more faithful and copious selection from Lord Fountainhall's existing manuscripts, the task was most appropriately and zealously undertaken by his lineal representative, the late Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, and the publication, intended to form two volumes in octavo, under the title of Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs...
Page xxiii - ... (120 copies) of which was only printed. The original manuscript of the volume is preserved in the Advocate's Library at Edinburgh. It is merely necessary to observe, that the author (Sir John Lander, a distinguished judge in the court of session, called in courtesy to that station Lord Fountainhall) was a constant, close, and singularly impartial observer of the remarkable events of his time ; and while his rank and character gave him access to the best information, he displayed much shrewdness...
Page xxii - ... of mankind. As a Judge, he applied himself with indefatigable assiduity to the discharge of his official duties ; and has left a very honourable memorial of his talents and industry in his Collection of Decisions, which record the proceedings of the Court of Session from 1678 to 1712 ; and incidentally note the transactions of the Privy Council of Scotland, with those of the Courts of Justiciary and Exchequer : a work compiled with so pleasing a mixture of the anecdotes of the times, and so much...
Page 2 - Case may be~\, with all that has followed or may follow on the same, ought and should be reduced, retreated, rescinded, cassed, annulled, decerned, and declared by Decree of Our said Lords, to have been from the Beginning, to be now and in all Time coming, null and void, and of no Avail, Force, Strength, or Effect, in Judgment or outwith the same...
Page xxi - Session (1714), a rare book, is quoted by Mr. Laing, but is too much in point to be omitted here. ' The publick and private character of this excellent judge are now so well known that I need say no more of him than that he signalized himself as a good patriot and true Protestant in the Parliament of 1686 in defence of the Penal Laws against Popery. This self-denyed man hath taken no less pains to shun places that were in his offer than some others have been at to get into preferment. Witness his...
Page 297 - Covenanters in 1666, and continued to be used throughout the reigns of King Charles II., and King James II., and during the first years of King William III. ' The genius of our nation,' writes Sir J. Lauder of Fountainhall in 1681, ' looks upon the torture of the boots as a barbarous remedy, and yet of late it hath been frequently used among us.