Lot 116
JACOBITE RISING OF 1745
22 ACTS MAINLY RELATING TO THE SUPPRESSION OF THE 1745 RISING, INCLUDING
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography | 575
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
An Act for the more easy and speedy Trial of such Persons as have levied, or shall levy War; An Act to impower His Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as His Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against His Person; An Act to make it High Treason to hold Correspondence with the Sons of the Pretender; An Act for the more effectual disarming the Highlands in Scotland; An Act for calling any suspected Person or Persons whose Estates or principal Residence are in Scotland; An Act for continuing an Act of this present Session of Parliament; An Act to attaint Alexander Earl of Kellie [& others]; An Act more effectually to prohibit and prevent Pastors of Ministers from officiating in Episcopal Meeting-houses in Scotland; An Act for the further continuing... An Act to impower His Majesty to secure and detain such Persons...; An Act for vesting in His Majesty the Estates of certain Traitors; An Act for the King's most Gracious, General and Free Pardon; An Act to enlarge the Time limited by an Act... for restraining the Use of the Highland Dress; An Act for taking away and abolishing the Heretable Jurisdictions in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland; An Act for taking away the Tenure of Ward Holding in Scotland; An Act for allowing Persons impeached of High Treason.. to make their full Defence by Council; An Act for Relief of such of His Majesty's Loyal Subjects.. whose Title Deeds and Writings were destroyed or carried off by the Rebels; An Act to prevent the Return of such Rebels and Traitors; An Act to amend.. an Act as relates to the more effectual disarming the Highlands in Scotland; An Act to render more effectual.. an Act for Relief of such of His Majesty's loyal Subjects; An Act for the more effectual Trial and Punishment of High Treason; An Act to ascertain and establish the Method of Proceeding to and upon Outlawries for High Treason.. in Scotland; An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration, most 1743-1749, the last 1766, disbound, all with neat paper spine and stapled