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The seventeenth volume in the Scottish History Society's Miscellany series, showcasing editions of unpublished short texts. Volume XVII of the Scottish History Society's Miscellany includes editions of nine unpublished short texts dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. These include a rich range of legal, economic, and intellectual documents ranging from an ""Essay on Resistance to Magistrates"" (c.1637-38), to a poem on the appointment of a judge at Melrose in 1682, to new material on the (in)famous physician and philosopher Archibald Pitcairne. This volume continues the Society's programme of making previously unpublished and unedited primary sources for Scotland's history available in scholarly and accessible forms.

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Author:   Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams (General Editor) ,  Michael Pearce ,  Karie Schultz ,  Calum S. Wright
Publisher:   Scottish History Society
Imprint:   Scottish History Society
ISBN:  

9780906245514

ISBN 10:   0906245516
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   09 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Account of George Wishart of Drymme, 1563-1565 Edited by Michael Pearce 2 Essay on Resistance to Magistrates, c.1637-1638 Edited by Karie Schultz 3 Observations on the Divine Right of Kings, 17th century La. III 737 Edited by Calum S. Wright 4 Two Protestations, October 1681 Edited by Laura Doak 5 A Strange Truth: A Poem about the Appointment of a Court Judge at Melrose, 1682 Edited by Vivienne Dunstan 6 The Justiciary Court of Argyll, 1694 Edited by Allan Kennedy 7 Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Archibald Pitcairne and His Critics Edited by Alasdair Raffe, translations by Juan Lewis 8 Constructing the Steeplehouse: The Dumfries Midsteeple Minute Book, 1703-1709 Edited by Robert Athol 9 'Practical Patriotism': The Sutherland Reclamations, 1868-1893 Edited by Annie Tindley Index

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ALLAN KENNEDY is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

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