A Short History of Scotland

About this eBook

Author

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Credits

Transcribed from the 1911 William Blackwood and Sons edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Scotland -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15955

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15955

Release Date

May 31, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A SHORT HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
2. 2.CHAPTER I. SCOTLAND AND THE ROMANS.
3. 3.CHAPTER II. CHRISTIANITY—THE RIVAL KINGDOMS.
4. 4.CHAPTER III. EARLY WARS OF RACES. — ENGLISH CLAIMS OVER SCOTLAND. — THE SCOTTISH ACQUISITION OF LOTHIAN.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV. MALCOLM CANMORE—NORMAN CONQUEST. — DYNASTY OF MALCOLM.
6. 6.CHAPTER V. DAVID I. AND HIS TIMES. — SCOTLAND BECOMES FEUDAL. — CHURCH LANDS. — THE BURGHS. — JUSTICE. — THE COURTS.
7. 7.CHAPTER VI. MALCOLM THE MAIDEN. — WILLIAM THE LION. — ALEXANDER II. — ALEXANDER III.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII. ENCROACHMENTS OF EDWARD I.—WALLACE. — THE YEAR OF WALLACE.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. BRUCE AND THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. — LATER DAYS OF BRUCE.
10. 10.CHAPTER IX. DECADENCE AND DISASTERS—REIGN OF DAVID II. — PARLIAMENT AND THE CROWN.
11. 11.CHAPTER X. EARLY STEWART KINGS: ROBERT II. (1371-1390). — THE REGENCY OF ALBANY.
12. 12.CHAPTER XI. JAMES I.
13. 13.CHAPTER XII. JAMES II. — FALL OF THE BLACK DOUGLASES.
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII. JAMES III.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV. JAMES IV.
16. 16.CHAPTER XV. JAMES V. AND THE REFORMATION.
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI. THE MINORITY OF MARY STUART.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII. REGENCY OF ARRAN.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII. REGENCY OF MARY OF GUISE. — NOTE.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT PILLAGE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XX. MARY IN SCOTLAND.
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI. MINORITY OF JAMES VI. — REGENCIES OF LENNOX, MAR, AND MORTON.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII. REIGN OF JAMES VI. — THE WAR OF KIRK AND KING. — THE CATHOLIC EARLS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII. THE GOWRIE CONSPIRACY. — UNION OF THE CROWNS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV. CHARLES I. — SCOTLAND AND CHARLES II.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXV. CONQUERED SCOTLAND.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXVI. THE RESTORATION.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVII. WILLIAM AND MARY.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVIII. DARIEN.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIX. PRELIMINARIES TO THE UNION.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXX. GEORGE I.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXXI. THE ARGATHELIANS AND THE SQUADRONE. — ENCLOSURE RIOTS. — MALT RIOTS. — THE HIGHLANDS. — THE PORTEOUS RIOT.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXII. THE FIRST SECESSION.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAST JACOBITE RISING.
35. 35.CONCLUSION.
36. 36.FOOTNOTES

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