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The History of Scotland, From the Union of the Crowns On the Accession of James Vi. to the ... 4
Malcolm Laing
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settlement When the throne was declared vacant, the crown> convention resolved that the crown should be tendered to William and Mary, as joint sove* reigns ; and that it should descend, on the failure of their issue, to the princess Anne and her heirs.
amidecia- But the fifteen articles of misconduct -in James, ration of r . ,. , • . r right*. were first digested into an instrument of govern- ment, and a declaration and claim of rights. More comprehensive still than the English declaration, it
...extended to almost every abuse of the two pre- ceding reigns. It asserted that no papist, accord- ing to the laws of the kingdom, could ascend the throne; that all proclamations assuming an abso- lute power to suspend or dispense with the laws, were illegal ; that the measures employed to estab- lish popery, that the imposing of bonds or paths, and exacting money without authority of parliament, were contrary to law ; that it w^s illegal to invest the officers of the army with judi- cial powers ; to inflict death without trial* jury, or record; to exact exorbitant fines or bail; to imprison without expressing the reason, Or to delay the trial; to prosecute and procure the for- *° Minutes of Convention, MS.

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