The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection Volume 2 - Brossura

Burton, John Hill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1152311786 ISBN 13: 9781152311787

Casa editrice: Rarebooksclub.com, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...been due and full deliberation, then would the king send by a messenger of his own an answer to his Holiness. The first step taken was to let loose upon the Court of Rome the wrath of the English temporal barons. Nothing better served to rouse them into union and patriotic action than resistance to the encroachments of the Church, and they sent to Rome a memorable protest against this attempt to interfere with the feudal and constitutional prerogatives of the crown of England. King Edward was in the mean time anxious to prepare and set forth a convincing case in favour of his claims. He had already, as we have seen, obtained materials from the religious houses, but he wanted more, and their records were again ransacked. Rishanger, whose notes of what was passing are so valuable, was employed with other cunning scribes to bring the case to perfection. The result was a production, one of the most extraordinary, as a state paper, to be found on record, though people may be familiar with the greater part of its contents in other shapes. After setting forth that the right of superiority in the King of England over Scotland was undoubted and notorious to all the world, and had been in active exercise by the removal and appointment of the rulers of that country at will--for the satisfaction of his Holiness, a brief narrative is put together to show the origin and antiquity of the right. It commences thus:--In the time of the prophets Eli and Samuel there was a certain illustrious personage named Brutus. He had to abandon Troy after the destruction of that city; and taking with him a following of noble Trojans, the band discovered a certain island, then called Albion, inhabited by giants. These were all defeated and slain by the Trojans, who, in...

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• Editore: Rarebooksclub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1152311786
• ISBN 13: 9781152311787
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160