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Excerpt from History of Scotland, Vol. 3: From the Revolution of 1689 to the Disruption, 1843 I. 771: Union Impending (1702 Anne acceptable to the Scottish people, 75. Scottish politicians and Anne's accession, 75 - 76. Anne desires Union, 77. Marlborough's victories and the Union, 78. Meeting of the Estates, 79 - 80. Queensberry and Hamilton, 80 - 81. Proceedings of the Estates, 82 - 84. Election of a new Parliament, 84 - 85. State of parties, 86 - 87. Whig measures, 88. Fletcher of Saltoun, 88 - 89. The Act of Security, 89 - 91. The Scots Plot, 91 - 92. The Jacobites and the Country Party, 92 - 93. Act of Security passed, 93. Its results, 94. Alien Act passed by English Parliament against the Scots, 15. Captain Thomas Green, 94 - 96. Third session of the Scottish Parliament, 96. State of parties, 97 - 98. Riding of Parliament, 98 - 100. Appointment of Commissioners of Union, 100 - 101. II. Proceedings of flu Commissioners of Union Members of the Commissions, 102 - 104. Meeting of the Commissioners, 104 - 105. Entire union accepted by both Commissions, 105. Agreement regarding taxation, 105 - 107. The Equivalent, 107. Representation in the United Parliament, 108. Final arrangements, 109. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.