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The Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union, 1707 in 2007: Defending the Revolution, Defeating the Jacobites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Bob Harris
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 49 , Special Issue 1: Special Issue on Scotland , January 2010 , pp. 28 - 46
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1 See, e.g., Brown, Peter Hume, ed., The Union of 1707 (Glasgow, 1907)Google Scholar.

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37 Whatley and Patrick, “Contesting Interpretations,” 35. Whatley and Patrick also cite the Jacobite James Carnegy to the effect that only if James VIII were to disavow his Catholicism as well as declare himself against the union would such an alliance be even conceivable.

38 Stephen, Presbyterians and the Act of Union, 31.