Category: History - British
The races which inhabited the northern parts of England and the southern parts of Scotland were descended from a common stock, and spoke a common language. But for centuries the problem of uniting them baffled the best-laid plans of kings and statesmen; and neither force, nor...
The races which inhabited the northern parts of England and the southern parts of Scotland were descended from a common stock, and spoke a common language. But for centuries the...
2. CHAPTER IIA few years before the Union of the Crowns, James, in the _Basilikon Doron_, that quaint little volume of “Instructions to his dearest sonne, Henry the Prince,” had alluded to t...
3. CHAPTER IIIWhen the battle of Worcester was fought exactly a year had passed since the battle of Dunbar. The events of that year were not such as to reconcile Scotland to the Union which w...
4. CHAPTER IVAt the Restoration the advisability of continuing the Union was discussed. In England it was maintained that the smaller country must give up its Parliament and its separate sys...
5. CHAPTER VAfter the failure of the treaty of 1670, eighteen years, eventful in the history of both kingdoms, passed; and at the Revolution the question of the Union was again discussed.