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The 1707 Union: support and opposition acknowledge receipt for sums paid, fuelling suspicions that they of union rests with the inept political leadership of the Country were again reimbursed from the capital equivalent (of £308,085-confederation also, in particular with the duke of Hamilton, who 10/-) conceded to compensate Scottish interests materially personally sabotaged three manoeuvres to stem the parliamentary disadvantaged through alignment to higher English fiscal dues, tide running in favour of the Court. Following the estates' approval exchange rates and national debt. This expectation that over 58% of the first article, moves were set afoot to mobilize the political of the capital equivalent would be utilized to make reparations for extremes in the country, the Cameronians and the clans, to effect a venture capital lost at Oarien was a further powerful inducement coup d'etat. The order to rendezvous outside the town of Hamilton for members of the estates not to oppose the union. The bulk of the was countermanded peremptorily by the duke who had taken fright sum advanced for arrears of salary (£12,325 sterling) was placed at at the prospect of dissolving the estates by force of arms. Instead of the personal disposal of Queensberry, as the queen's commissioner the anticipated 7-8000 fighting men, less than 50 kept the to the estates, and was certainly distributed covertly, not only to rendezvous. Hamilton secreted himself in his mansion until the shore up the Court, but also to pay informers and, perhaps, agents potential insurgents dispersed leaderless. As the Court was now on provocateur in order to expose and discredit any recourse to the guard against the possibility of an armed rising, the opposition, military option by the parliamentary opposition or their adherents again inspired primarily by the Jacobites, decided upon a mass in the country. That the estates' proceedings on the union were lobby of parliament-house by the gentry who had submitted conducted against a continuous background of popular disturbances addresses from the shires against the union. Although over 500 in the capital and well-founded rumours of risings involving U Cameronians in the south-west and clans in the Highlands served ::;> also to justify the intimidatory presence of standing forces as a parliamentary guard to expedite the passage and ratification of the ? treaty. But the accomplishment of parliamentary union cannot wholly be attributed to the politics of influence and military intimidation nor even to the Court's concession of an act within the treaty confirming the Presbyterian establishment, a political masterstroke which removed the Kirk as the galvaniser of addresses against the union from presbyteries and local communities. A large measure of responsibility for the eventual ratification of the treaty Pe r t h Lanark Addresses against the Union: counties • Addresses against the Union: royal burghs o Addresses against the Union: other towns Civil opposition to the Union 0 I 0 25 , 10 20 kms 50 ,, 30 miles 75, , 50 100 , , 60 AIM 152

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