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id: A50598
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1689
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title:
  A memorial for His Highness the Prince of Orange in relation to the affairs of Scotland together with the address of the Presbyterian-party in that kingdom to his Highness : and some observations on that address / by two persons of quality.

summary:
  Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A50598-e150 * N. B. These were written some time before the Prince was proclaim'd King of England , &c. * The Learned Doctors at Aberdeen were all deposed and expelled , for disputing against the Legality of some Subjects imposing Oaths upon others , without the consent of lawful Authority . Church of Scotland.


id: A50672
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1667
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words: 13482
sentence: 248
flesch: 39
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title:
  A moral paradox maintaining, that it is much easier to be vertuous then vitious / by Sir George Mackeinzie.

summary:
  But , Sir , I have chose you to be the Patron of this Book , because your practice is the strongest Argument , whereby I can evince what is undertaken in it , which is to prove , That there is more ease in Vertue then in Vice. And seing to undertake the proof of this , were the next crime to the doubting of it : And since your Worthiness , and my esteem of it , are much rais'd above the frail helps of Complement , or a wearying Dedication , let me assure you , and the World of both , by the innocent vanity I take in the title of Your sincere friend , and humble Servant , Geo. That then wherewith I shall task my self in this discourse , shall be to prove , that Vertue is more easie then Vice.


id: A50897
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1683
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mime: application/xml
words: 15603
sentence: 483
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A50897.xml
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title:
  A vindication of His Majesties government and judicatures in Scotland from some aspersions thrown on them by scandalous pamphlets and news-books, and especially with relation to the late Earl of Argiles Process.

summary:
  A Vindication of His Majesties Government , and Judicatures , in SCOTLAND , &c. ALL wise and sober Men in Scotland , do with a just mixture of pity , and contempt , Read those infamous Pamphlets , wherein this Kingdom is so maliciously traduced by some in our Neighbour-Nation ; and when they consider that the Licentiousness of the Press , does so much weaken all Government , corrupt all Intelligence , and blast so unavoidably the Reputation of the best , and most Innocent : They conclude justly , that to deny their King the necessary priviledge and prerogative of restraining the Press , were to refuse to the Master of a Ship , the power to prevent its Leaking : To deny the Magistrat the power of punishing these , who corrupt the Springs and Fountains of a City : And to refuse to the Master of a Family , the Power of Chastising his Servants when they rail at one another . And how dare men be so dissingenuous , as to own themselves the only Protestants , and yet to inveigh against Statutes made to hinder Jesuites , Socinians , and others to pervert the people ; as we certainly know , they did for many years together , at those meetings , and how could this be prevented , since the poor commens know not what is Orthodox .


id: A50856
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1684
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words: 16992
sentence: 501
flesch: 57
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title:
  That the lawful successor cannot be debarr'd from succeeding to the crown maintain'd against Dolman, Buchannan, and others / by George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  It is answered , that by a former Statute in the 25 year of his Reigne , he by Act of Parliament setles the Crown upon the Heirs male of his own body , and for lack of such issue , to Lady Elizabeth , and for lack of such issue also , to the next Heirs of the King , who should for ever succeed according to the right of Succession of the Crown of England ; which shewes that the Succession to the Crown of England is establish't by the Law of Nature , and the Fundamental Laws of England , upon the Heirs of Blood , according to the proximity of degrees ; so that though that King did afterwards prevaile with the Parliament to declare this Elizabeth a Bastard , as he did also his Daughter Mary , by another Act , and resolve to setle the Crown , upon Henry Fitz Roy , Duke of Richmond , yet these Acts teach us how dangerous it is to leave Parliaments to the impression of Kings in the case of naming a Successor , as it is to expose Kings to the arbitrariness of Parliaments . that he refus'd to allow the Lawes made in Parliament , does very well remark , that this was in effect to consent to their being King , and to transferre upon them the Royal power , and this will be the event of all such undertakings .


id: A50863
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1685
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words: 18791
sentence: 377
flesch: 41
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title:
  The tryal and process of high-treason and doom of forfaulture against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood traitor by His Majesties special command ...

summary:
  Nevertheless , it is o● verity that the said Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood , shaking off all fear of God , respect and regard to His Majesties Authority and Laws ; and having conceived most unjustly , a great and extraordinary malice and harted against His Majesties Person and Government , and having designed most Traiterously to debar His Royal Highness , His Majesties only Brother , from His due Right of Succession , did amongst many other Traiterous Acts , tending to promove that wicked Design , endeavour to get himself Elected one of the Commissioners for Negotiating the settlement of a Colony of this Nation in Carolina , in one or other of the days of the Moneths of January , February , March , April , or May , One thousand six hundred and eighty three years ; and that he might thereby have the sreer and better access to Treat with the Earls of Shaftsbury and Essix , the Lord Russel and others , who had entered into a Conspiracy in England against His Majesties Person and Government , and with Colonel Rumsay , Walcot , West , and Ferguson , and others who had likewise Conspired the Murder of His Majesties Sacred Person , and of the Person of His Royal Highness ; and finding that he could not get himself Elected one of the said Commissioners , he resolved to go to London upon his own expenses , and declared to severals ( whom he took great pains to draw in to be his accomplices ) that his Design was to push foreward the People of England , who did nothing but talk , that they might go on effectually ; and after he had settled a Correspondency here , he did go up to London in one or other of the saids Moneths , with Sir John Cochran and Commissar Monro , and did then , and there , Transact with the saids Conspirators , or one or other of them , to get a sum of Money to the late Earl of Argile , a Declaired Traitor , for bringing home of Men and Arms , for raising a Rebellion against His Majesty , and Invading this his Native Countrey ; and so earnest was he in the said Design , that he did chide those English Conspirators , for not sending the same timcously , and lamented the delayes used in it ; and perswaded the late Earl of Argile and others in his name to accept of any him , rather than not to engage : and amongst the many meetings that he had at London , for carrying on the said Traiterous design , there was one at his own Chamber , where he did meet with the Lord Melvil , Sir John Cochran , and the Cessnocks Elder and Younger , and amongst others , with Mr. William Veatch a declared Traitor , and there he did treat of the carying on of the said Rebellion , and of the money to be furnished by the English for Argyle , for buying of Armes . And that if the Scots would attempt any thing for their own relief , they would get assistance of Horse from England ; and from that meeting , he or ane , or other of them did send down Mr. Robert Martin to prevent any rysing , till it should be seasonable for carying on of their Designs , which Mr. Robert , after he came to Scotland , did treat with Palwart and others , for carying on of the said Rebellion , by securing His Majesties Officers of State , His Castles and Forces , and by putting his Correspondents here , and there Associates , in readiness , to assist the late Earl of Argyle ; and after the said Mr. Baillie had engadged many of his Countrey-men in England , and had assured his Correspondants here , that the English were resolved to seclud his Royal-Highness from his due right of Succession , thereby to encourage them to concur in the said Rebellion , and Exclusion , he flew to that hight , that he did particularly and closly correspond with Mr. Robert Ferguson , Sir Thomas Armstrong , Collonel Rumsay , and Walcot , who were accessory to that horrid part of the Couspiracy , which was designed against the sacred Life of His Majesty , and the Life of His Royal-Highness , and did sit up several nights with them , concerting that bloody Massacer : at least the said Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood was , and is guilty of having correspondence with the late Earl of Argyle , and Mr. William Veatch declared Traitors , and of being art and part of an Conspiracy , for assisting of these who were to rise in arms against His Sacred Majesty , and for exclusion of His Royal Brother , and of concealing and not revealing the accession and proposals of others for that effect .


id: A50871
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1685
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title:
  The tryal and process of high-treason and doom of forfaulture against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood traitor ...

summary:
  Sometime thereafter , Mr. Shepherd told the Deponent , that he had communicat the Contents of the Letter above-named , to Colonel Sidney , and that Colonel Dunvers was present , and told the Deponent , that Colonel Sidney was averse from imploying the late Earl of Argile , or medling with him , judging him a man too much affected to the Royal Family , and inclin'd to the present Church-Government ; yet Mr. Shepherd being put upon it by the Deponent , still urg'd , that one might be sent to the Earl of Argile ; but as Mr. Shepherd told him , he was suspected upon the account of his urging so much ; yet afterwards he press'd , without the Deponents knowledge , that the Deponent being to go to Holland however , might have some Commission to the Earl of Argile , which he having inform'd the Deponent of , the Deponent told him , that he himself would not be concern'd , but if they would send another , he would introduce him ; but nothing of this was done : upon which the Deponent went over , without any Commission from any body , to Holland , never meeting with James Stuart above-nam'd : He was introduc'd to the Earl of Argile , with whom he had never before convers'd ; and did there Discourse what had past betwixt Mr. Shepherd and him ; and particularly , about remitting of Money to the said Earl from England ; of which the said Mr. Stuart had written to the Deponent , namely of 30000 pounds Sterling ; and of the raising of 1000 Horse and Dragoons ; and the securing the Castle of Edinburgh , as a matter of the greatest importance : The method of doing this was propos'd by the Deponent , to be one hour , or thereby , after the relieving of the Guards : My Lord Argile was of Opinion , that without them nothing was to be done ; and that if that number were rais'd in England to the said Earl , he would come into Scotland with them ; and that there being so few Horse and Dragoons to meet them , he judg'd he might get the Countrey without trouble , having such a standing Body for their Friends to Rendezvous to ; and the said Earl said he could show the Deponent the conventient places for Landing , if he understood ; and as the Deponent remembers , where the Ships could attend .


id: A50604
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1665
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words: 21053
sentence: 416
flesch: 43
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title:
  A moral essay, preferring solitude to publick employment, and all it's appanages, such as fame, command, riches, pleasures, conversation, &c.

summary:
  As to the design which men propose to themselves , in pursuing Greatness and publick Employment ; all will tell you , that they seek these , either to under-prop their falling families , ( whose proud tops begin to bow , in homage to that mortality , which will needs one day triumph over us and ours ) or else to defend themselves against some considerable enemy ; or to wipe off the stains and scarres of disloyalty or prejudice . Except some volatile Heads , whose mercurial Complexion hath inclined them rather to a restlessness , then virtuous activity , and who like the wind , are nothing at all when they are not moving : and ye will find the residue of men so averse from toil and employments , that they must be either bryb'd to them by gain , or baited with honour : and the most diligent amongst active States-men will wish , that their long'd-for triumphs , or desired employments , were at a period , that they might enjoy themselves ( for so they terme it ) in a solitary retirement ; which is that Canaan of rest , which like Moses on Pisgah , they see afar off , but without hopes of enjoyment : and so fond are these upon one moment of it , when enjoyed , that they will disobliege for it on-waiters , neglect their interest , and slight oft great advantages .


id: A50634
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1667
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21476
sentence: 443
flesch: 46
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title:
  Moral gallantry a discourse, wherein the author endeavours to prove, that point of honour (abstracting from all other tyes) obliges men to be vertuous and that there is nothing so mean (or unworthy of a gentleman) as vice / by Sir George Mackenzie.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Since then holy Altars have not disdain'd to offer up Pigeons , and such like value-lesse things , which nothing but the sincerity of the offerer could render considerable , refuse not to accept and revise these , though unfiinsht Discourses : And if a mans last words may be believ'd , I ( who am to make these my last words in print , and confine my thoughts for the future to my ordinary employment ) do assure you , that they are presented with all imaginable respect and zeal , by Your Graces most humble Servant , George M ckenzie .


id: A50913
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1691
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mime: application/xml
words: 22863
sentence: 342
flesch: 24
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title:
  A vindication of the government in Scotland during the reign of King Charles II against mis-representations made in several scandalous pamphlets to which is added the method of proceeding against criminals, as also some of the phanatical covenants, as they were printed and published by themselves in that reign / by Sir George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  We then seeing the innumerable Sins and Snares that are in giving obedience to their Acts , on the other hand , seeing if we shall acknowledge their Authority , and refuse Obedience to their sinful Commands , the endless Miseries that will follow , and siding with God ( who we hope will accept and help us to a liberation from their Tyranny ) against his stated and declared Enemies ; do reject that King , and those associate with him , from being our Rulers , because standing in the way of our Right , free and peaceably serving of God , propagating his Kingdom and Reformation , and overthrowing Satans Kingdom , according to our Covenant ; And declares them henceforth to be no lawful Rulers , as they have declared us to be no lawful Subjects , upon a ground far less warrantable , as Men unbyassed may see ; and that after this , we neither owe , nor shall yield any willing Obedience to them , but shall rather suffer the outmost of their Cruelties and Injustice , until God shall plead our Cause , and that upon these Accounts ; because they have altered and destroyed the Lord's established Religion , overturned the fundamental and establish'd Laws of the Kingdom ▪ taken altogether away Christ's Church and Government , and changed the Civil Government of this Land ( which was by King and free Parliament ) into Tyranny , where none are associate to be partakers of the Government , but only those who will be found by Justice to be Guilty of Criminals , and all others excluded , even those who by the Laws of the Land by Birth had a right to , and a share in that Government , and that only , because not of the same Guiltiness and mischievous Purposes with themselves : And also , all free elections of Commissioners for Parliaments , and Officers for Government , are made void by their making those the Qualifications of admission to these Places , which by the Word of God , and the Laws of this Land , were the cause of their exclusion before , so that none can look upon us , or judge us bound in Allegeance to them . And seeing ▪ that the Ministers of the Church of Scotland , ( at least the greatest part of them before ) not only were defective in Preaching and Testifying against the Acts of these Rulers , for overthrowing Religion and Reformation , abjuring our Covenant made with God , establishing a Government in the Church , which that King calls his own Government , ( and so not God's , ) contrair to our Covenant ; Against inacting of that Blasphemous ( so Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eighth , upon which this Prerogative is founded , and from which it is derived , and is no less , if not more jnjurious to Christ , and inslaving to his Church , ) and Sacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God , and against the other Acts and Incroachments of His Church , and hindred others also who were willing ▪ and would have testified against them , and censured some that did it , ( for which , together with the other Causes in their Trust and Administration , we may say , God hath left them to do worse things ; ) but also hath voted in that Meeting , ( which they are pleased to call an Assembly of Ministers , but how justly , let Men judge , ) an Acceptation of that Liberty , founded upon , and given by vertue of that blasphemously arrogated and usurped Power ; and hath appeared before their Courts to accept of that Liberty , and to be enacted and authorized there as Ministers , and so hath willingly ( for this is an elicit Act of the Will , and not an Act of Force and Constraint ) translated the Power of sending out , ordering , censuring , ( for as they accept of their Liberty ▪ from them , so they submit to their Censures and Restraints , at least all of them who were yet tried with it , and others of them appeared and acknowledged before their Courts , that they would not have done these things that they were charged with , if they had thought it would have offended them , )


id: A50650
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1691
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flesch: 53
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title:
  The moral history of frugality vvith its opposite vices, covetousness, niggardliness, prodigality and luxury / written by the Honourable Sir George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  DISCOURSE I. WHEN I consider how many have had their Affections warm'd by pious Sermons , how many Moral Philosophers have convinc'd those who have read them , and yet how few have been reform'd by either ; I begin to think , that there must lie some strange hidden Engine in the Heart of Man , which is able to pull back even thinking Men from improving these impressions : and that which seems to be one of the chief occasions of this , is that men are become so poor , by the general Avarice and Luxury which now unreasonably tyrannize over the World , that they are tempted to be Wicked to satisfie their Imaginary fantastic Necessities . Since Self-Love is mans chief Counsellor , it seems that Men are more naturally inclined to Luxury than Prodigality : as they are inclined to love themselves better than their Neighbours .


id: A50752
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
title: Reason an essay / by Sir George Mackenzie.
date: 1690
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words: 24839
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summary:
  Whereas when our Saviour came into the World , he neither taught Mathematicks , Medicine , nor Physiology , tho' all these were much considered in that Age wherein he assum'd our Nature ; and he could have made himself as much admir'd by clearing mysterious doubts in these , as by working Miracles ; but he passing by all these as less useful Notions , and such as too frequently divert and distract , rather than inform ; he declares he was come to make Man happy , and begins his Ministry by an admirable Sermon on the Mount , whereby , in order to the making him happy , he teaches him to reason rightly upon his duty to God and Men : and it is strange , that we should think dull matter is able to afford more noble Contemplations , than that subtle , that sublime , that vast , and that nimble Soul , which retains so far the Image of its Maker , as to be inscrutable in all its faculties : and Oh what wonderful Springs and Motions , what various windings and flights , what boundless and new Spheres and Worlds are there in his Reflections , and what things are daily said , and Volumes written on the Love to Women , which is but the excursion of one of them . If there were no Men but the sillie and humorous Asserters of this Opinion , I should be asham'd to bring Man as an instance of the Power and Wisdom of God : Let us then consider this Creature , form'd of I know not what , fed , breathing , and growing in the Womb , we know not how ; but from those despicable beginnings , one rises in a short time , to measure the Heavens , to calculate their Motions , and to imitate their Lightning and Thunder ; another does for his own Glory , form such Models of Religion as seduces , and draws after him Millions of Men , contrary to their former Interests , as well as former Inclinations : A Third , by his Skill , Conduct , and Courage , makes even the remotest Countries of the World to tremble , overturning , and confounding that World , whereof he is so small a part :


id: A50771
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
title: Religio stoici
date: 1663
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summary:
  And albeit it may be answered , that God might have restrained man , but that restraint did not stand with the freedom of mans will which God had bestowed upon him ; yet , this answer stops not the mouth of the difficulty . Another is to perswade us , like to the second Table , to love our neighbour , and to be a mean to settle all these jealousies , and compesce all these animosities which interest might occasion ; and this appears by the Doxology jubilyed by the Angels at our Saviours birth , Glory to God , and peace and good-will towards men .


id: A50890
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1685
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37541
sentence: 682
flesch: 40
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title:
  A true and plain account of the discoveries made in Scotland, of the late conspiracies against His Majesty and the government extracted from the proofs lying in the records of His Majesties Privy Council, and the high justice court of the nation : together with an authentick extract of the criminal process and sentence against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood / extracted by command of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council of Scotland ...

summary:
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id: A50442
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1686
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40069
sentence: 1316
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A50442.xml
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title:
  The antiquity of the royal line of Scotland farther cleared and defended, against the exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. Stillingfleet, in his vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph by Sir George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  To which it is replyed , that Beda is a Chronologue , and is carefull of the Notation of time where he knows it : And therefore it seems still to me and has done so to such as understand well Chronology , as sure a demonstration as that Science can allow , that the Scots being named as one of the three ancient Nations inhabiting this Isle , and their actions against the Britons and Romans , being narrated before the Saxons are said to have entred , that therefore their settlement must be the elder , though it be not said in express terms , and if any account of Kings , or memorable actions , were set down by a Chronologue , without adding the years , these things behov'd to be considered ancient , according to the order wherein they are exprest ; especially in this case , since the * defeat of the Britons by the Scots and Picts is made the cause of bringing in the Saxons ; and the cause must necessarily precede the effect . And the Authority and Learning of the Druids , upon which the Irish do chiefly found the Authority of their Histories , is absolutely denied ; as it also is , that the Irish had use of Letters , till after St. Patrick's time : and all the Antiquity he does allow them is , as to general things , as , from whence they were peopl'd , and that they had successions of Kings time out of mind ; and does magnify the Tygerneck Annals for confessing , that the Irish Antiquities , till the Reign of Kimbacius their 73d King , are very uncertain , and he liv'd within 59 years of our Fergus .


id: A50719
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38748
sentence: 1190
flesch: 57
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title:
  Observations upon the 28. (i.e. 18.) Act, 23. Parl. K. James VI. against dispositions made in defraud of creditors, &c. by Sir George Mckenzie ...

summary:
  For though it would appear by the narrative , that this Law was only designed to secure such as were Creditors for an onerous cause ; and albeit it would seem that the only reason why that this Law was introduced , was wanting here ; since the Creditor did not lend out his money in this case , in contemplation his his Debitors Estate : Yet since in the construction of Law , even donations are good Rights , and the person to whom they are made becomes thereby Creditor ; etiam donatarius est Creditor , post quam donatio est completa ( except in the case where the donation is revockable ) therefore this Action is likewise competent to them ; and so it has been oft decided in our Law. And as this is not suitable to the principles of equity , and justice ; so neither seems it suitable to the Principles of Law , for tantum facit quis delinquendo , quantum facit se obligando , and therefore as I could have reduced any such voluntar Alienation , if another had expresly oblidged himself to me , so ought I to have the same benefit when another l●●s committed a cryme against me : And ●● we consider seriously the principles of either the Civil , or our Municipal Law ; we will find ; that not only are Creditors ex dilicto looked upon as Creditors , but that they have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . or jus prelationis to all other Creditors , in swa far as concerns the necessary reparations .


id: A50493
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1685
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42898
sentence: 1415
flesch: 61
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title:
  A defence of the antiquity of the royal line of Scotland with a true account when the Scots were govern'd by kings in the isle of Britain / by Sir George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  For of all the Passages produced by Archbishop Vsher , or Bishop of St. Asaph , to prove the Irish to be called Scoti , that of Orosius is the first that is applicable to them : for those from Claudian , Ammianus , Pacatius , and Hegisippus do not at all agree with them ; nor yet that Passage from Prosper , as has been proved ; nor these from Gildas : for tho he calls those People , who are said to return home , Hiberni , or Irish ; yet * he calls the same People who return'd home , Scots , and not Irish. A defence of the antiquity of the royal line of Scotland with a true account when the Scots were govern'd by kings in the isle of Britain / by Sir George Mackenzie ...


id: A50542
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1684
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42910
sentence: 1072
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A50542.xml
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title:
  Jus regium, or, The just, and solid foundations of monarchy in general, and more especially of the monarchy of Scotland : maintain'd against Buchannan, Naphthali, Dolman, Milton, &c. / by Sir George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  For First , The Almighties design being to manifest his Glory , in Creating a World , so vast and regular as this is , and his goodnesse in Governing it , and that Men might live peaceably in it , having both Reason and Time to Serve him , it was consequential that he should have reserved to himself the immediat dependence of the supream Power , to preclude the extravagant and restlesse multitude , from those frequent Revolutions which they would make , and Desolations which they would occasion , if they thought that the supream Power depended on them , and that they were not bound to obey them for Conscience sake ; so that those expressions in Scripture were very useful in this to curb our Insolencies , and to fix our restlesnesse ; and it seems that Kings are in Scripture , said to be gods , to the end it might be clear that they were not made by Men· 2 dly , God Almighty being King of Kings , it was just , that as inferiour Magistrats derived their Power from the King , so Kings should derive their Power from God , who is their King ; and this seems to be clear from that analogy , which runs in a Dependence , and Chain through the whole Creation . But I dare say , the principles of my Adversaries have moe than mine ; for common-wealths are not only subject to erre , because they have their passions as well as King ; but they are subject to moe passions : for 1. These who Govern in Common-wealthes and Aristocrasies , have Rivals whom they fear , and against whom , upon that account , they bear Revenge , which Kings want .


id: A50514
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
title: The institutions of the law of Scotland by Sir George Mackenzie ...
date: 1684
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  Of Ser●itudes Page 16● Title X. Of ●eynds Page 18● Title XI . Of the Dissolution or Extension of Obligations Page 255 Title V. Of Assignations Page 261 Title V. Of Arr●stments and Poi●●ings Page 265 Title VI.


id: A70582
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1680
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  The science of herauldry, treated as a part of the civil law, and law of nations wherein reasons are given for its principles, and etymologies for its harder terms.

summary:
  20. gives an instance of this in the person of S. Henry , St. George , who got the Arms of Swede in a Canton , when he was Ambassadour there : and the Italians give many instances of this Rule , in arms given by Princes to Cardinals : But if Successors be not secluded ; then Arms descends to his Heirs , though they be not exprest , Bart. It is most ordinar in Scotland to tailye Estates to the eldest Heir fernal , she marrying one who shall bear the name and arms of the disponers family : but whether the person who marries that Heretrix or Heiresse , as the English speak , may lawfully carry the disponners Arms , according to the Laws of Heraldry , wants not its scruple ; seeing Arma gentilitia , which are presumed still to be granted to a man and his Heirs , non transeunt ad extraneos ; else any man might give Arms , as well as the Prince or Heralds :


id: A50712
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
title: Observations upon the laws and customs of nations, as to precedency by Sir George Mackenzie ...
date: 1680
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words: 55065
sentence: 1726
flesch: 58
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summary:
  BEing desired to prove , that from Chronology it is Impossible , that Kenneth 3. King of Scots , did row Edgar King of the English Saxons over the Dee ; I prove it thus : Kenneth the 3. did not Succeed to the Crown of Scotland , till the Year 977. The French King debates his precedency with the King of Spain ; the Spaniard contending that he ought to be preferred , because he is the most Catholick King , and King of maniest Kingdoms ; and some of them are so foolish as to say , That the Spainish Nation is more ancient than the French , as owing their Origin to Athamaricus , one of the first Governours amongst the Goths .


id: A50746
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1673
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title:
  Pleadings in some remarkable cases before the Supreme Courts of Scotland since the year 1661 to which the decisions are subjoyn'd.

summary:
  THe greatest glory of Art is , that it can imitate Nature ; and every thing which forces Nature , is hated by men , as folly and affectation ; but amongst all those Arts which follow Nature , Law is the chief , for it being the chief product of Reason , it endeavours most to resemble Nature , Reason and Nature being in man the same thing vary'd under diverse expressions , and Reason being mans Nature . But Judges must look more to Justice , then complement ; and therefore , I must beg pardon to alledge for my Client , that he cannot be punished for beating his Wife , because , The Wife is by Law under the power and authority of her Husband , which subjection is not only the punishment of her sin , nor will all this power repair to man , the losse he had by the injury done him when he got this power ; but this power is put in the Husbands hands , for the good , not only of the Common-wealth , but of the Women themselves : as to the Common wealth , it was fit , that in every Family the Husband should be empowered to correct the extravagancies of his Wife , and not to bring them before the Judge , and in publick , this would have divided families , raised publick scandals , and many will be content to receive correction in privat , who would never be reconciled after a publick correction .


