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Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James Vi. To the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne
The following work was chie?y undertaken, as a Hiltory of Scotland, from theunion of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms, feemed to be {till wanting to render its annals complete. The early, hifiory of Scotland is in other hands the molt im portant period has been executed by Dr. Robertfon, with a fidelity equal at leaf]: to the elegance and the fuccefs of his work; but the domeftic tranfaétions of Scotland, from the Acce?ion to the Union, have hitherto remained concealed in manufcripts, or buried in the Obfcnre volumes of ecclefiaflical dif putation. The molt prominent events alone are. Occafionally recorded in Englilh hiltorians but the caufes, confequences, and the whole train of fubordinate incidents, are imperfectly known. It becomes not me to. Determine, hardly indeed to conjeeture, how far, or whether I have fucceeded in my defign, to give a jufi and impartial con tinuation of the Hiltory of Scotland down to the period when its Hifiory expires.
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