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An Act to amend and enforce so much of an Act made in the Nineteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, as relates to the more effectual disarming the Highlands in Scotland; and restraining the Use of Highland Dress, and to Masters and Teachers of private Schools and Chaplains; and to explain a Clause in another Act made in the same Year, relating to Letters of Orders of Episcopal Ministers in Scotland; and to oblige Persons allowed to carry Arms, and the Directors of the Banks there, and certain Persons belonging to, or practising in the Courts of Session and Justiciary, to take the Oaths; […]
Date
1748
Dimensions1 textual record ; 22 x 14.5 cm
Origin
Edinburgh, Scotland, Europe
Object NumberS001/B3.3,3.2
DivisionArchives - Textual Archives
CollectionStewart
Scope and ContentAmendment to an act issued in 1746 by the tenth Parliament of Great Britain during the first session under the reign of George II (1683-1760). The act reinforces the disarming of the Scottish Highlands following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.NotesSource of title: based on the nature of the document.
Statement of responsibility: printed in Edinburgh by Adrian Watkins.
Physical description: 28 pages.
Language of the document: the document is in English.
Statement of responsibility: printed in Edinburgh by Adrian Watkins.
Physical description: 28 pages.
Language of the document: the document is in English.
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