Lives of the Queens of Scotland And English Princesses Connected With the Regal
Lives of the Queens of Scotland And English Princesses Connected With the Regal
Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874
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Buchanan. * It may be said that the land-tax was voluntarily offered to the Dutch King, as indeed it was by the clever decoy-ducks of his party, whose gen- erosity induced the geese of the nation to follow an example which their descendants still deeply rue. MARY OF LORRAINE. 175 hatchet as would supply it with a handle, was cut down root and branch by that very instrument. Many wise and salutary regulations for the domestic weal of Scotland were established in the first three years of the rege...ncy of Mary of Lorraine. Her principal adviser in her domestic legis- lation, with regard to jurisprudence, was the learned Henry Sin- clair, Dean of Glasgow, Vice-President of the College of Justice, who had been a favorite counselor of her late husband James V. , but, finding himself neglected by the Governor Arran, had retired to France. Almost the first use the Queen-Regent made of her power was to invite hirn to return, and occupy his invaluable talents in effecting an extensive law reform, much required in all the executive branches of that important department of Govern- ment, especially in putting a check to the vexatious delays and complicated processes devised by the cupidity of the lawyers, to increase and multiply fees in carrying on suits.
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