Genealogical account of the family of Burnett, of Burnetland and Barns

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For private circulation, 1880 - 55 Seiten
 

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Seite 33 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Seite 44 - Renewing of Assurances from Time to Time : But since we came so far, by great Pains in our Person, endureing our Stay there, and by Our continual Direction sensyne, suppressed that Monster within that Kingdom, so as wee do hardly think that there be any One Feid except this in all that Kingdome unreconciled ; and the Wrongs and Mischiefs done by either of them, as We understand, to others, being in such a Proportion of a Compensation as neither Party can either boast of advantage, or otherways think...
Seite 18 - Burnet shewed a great inclination to have those people used with lenity ; and when their affair came before the privy council, he laboured to get their lives spared, and went so far as to transmit an account of the proceedings of the council against the captive rebels to the English secretary, Sir Henry Bennet, afterwards Earl of Arlington, to be communicated to the king. This the Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale...
Seite 8 - Lord's lieges'—enacts, that' therefore ua faith be given, in time ' cumming, to ony obligation, band, or uther writing, under ane seale, ' without the subscription of him that awe the sainin, and wituesse : ' or else, gif the partie cannot write, with the subscription of ane Notar
Seite 6 - England, she embroidered for the Duke of Norfolk a hand with a sword in it, cutting vines, with the motto Virescit vulnere -virtus.
Seite 17 - Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV. the family was again united : Henry VII. dying in 1509, left three children, a son and two daughters, the youngest of whom married James IV. king of Scotland, who was, in 1513, succeeded in that kingdom by his son James V.
Seite 13 - ... Burneville, and de Burnetvilla. A family of the name, connected with land, existed in Teviotdale early in the twelfth century. In the charter of foundation of the Abbey of Selkirk by Earl David, younger son of Malcolm Canmore, Robertus de Burnetvilla is a witness, and either the same or another Robertus de Burnetvilla, is witness to charters of David when king. The principal family of the name in the south of Scotland have long been the Burnetts of Barns, in Peebleshire. Those lands, in 1838,...
Seite 8 - of adventure be tint, quhairthrow great hurt may be genered to "° 8 ' " them that awe the samin ; and that mennis seales may be feinzied ' " or put to writinges after their decease.
Seite 49 - Hay, in pursuance of his firm Zeal for the present Establishment of the Protestant Succession, had been all this while exerting his Vigilance to the utmost at Edinburgh, in dispersing and seizing all he could meet with that were known to be disaffected to his Majesty's Person and Government, and, but some short Time before this, had the good Fortune to baffle an Attempt that was made by about 200 armed Jacobites to seize the Town Guard and put the City in Confusion, by getting hold of Burnet of Carlops...
Seite 49 - ... armed jacobites, to seize the town-guard and put the city in confusion, by arresting Burnet of Carlops and some others of the ringleaders at the place of rendezvous, but a few hours before the plot was to be put in execution.

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