Church And Reform in Scotland; a History From 1797 to 1843
The book Church And Reform in Scotland; a History From 1797 to 1843 was written by author Mathieson, William Law, 1868- Here you can read free online of Church And Reform in Scotland; a History From 1797 to 1843 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Church And Reform in Scotland; a History From 1797 to 1843 a good or bad book?
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The Society of Writers to the Signet resolved by 155 votes to 132 not to petition ' Reports from Parliamentary Committees, 1831, vol. iii. THE STRUGGLE AT WESTMINSTER 211 in favour of the Bill ; but few even of the county electors could be persuaded to petition against it.^ In Berwick- shire thirty-three persons met and resolved to adopt this course, and a meeting of nine persons in Morayshire appears to have been equally unanimous ; but in Roxburghshire, despite the passionate appeal of Sir Wa...lter Scott,^ out of seventy persons who had assembled twenty-three voted for reform, in Dumbartonshire twenty-five out of sixty-one, in Banffshire four out of thirteen, and in East Lothian four out of twelve. On the other hand, at a meeting convened by the Anti- Eeformers of Forfarshire, an amendment in favour of the Bill was carried by sixty votes to twenty-four.^ As pubUc opinion waxed more and more enthusiastic in favour of reform, the prospects of the Enghsh Bill in the Commons, which had at first been regarded as hopeless, steadily improved ; and on March 22, or rather at three o'clock on the following morning — " betting going on all night long " and both sides confident of success — ^it was read a second time, in much the fullest House on record, by a single vote.* The Ministry were not discouraged ; but on April 19 Colonel Gascoyne succeeded in carrying an amendment that 1 Scott recommended a rat-catcher who applied for employment at Abbotsford " to go to the head courts and meetings of freeholders where he would find rats in plenty." — Lockhart, v.
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