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Contents
CHAP | xii |
THE ROMAN EPISODE | 1 |
EARLY SCOTLAND | 16 |
THE FOUNDATIONS | 19 |
A FEUDAL KINGDOM | 35 |
CONSOLIDATION | 51 |
EARLDOMS AND SHERIFFDOMS circa 1300 | 64 |
THE CONTESTED SUCCESSION | 67 |
MARY STEWART | 225 |
THE COUNTERREFORMATION | 241 |
THE CATHOLIC REVOLT | 261 |
PROTESTANTS AND Roman Catholics circa 1590 | 272 |
KING AND KIRK | 287 |
THE COVENANT | 311 |
COVENANTERS AND ROYALISTS 1644 | 352 |
THE SOLEMN LEAGUE | 353 |
THE BRUCES | 83 |
JAMES THE FIRST | 101 |
THE FALL OF THE DOUGLAS | 112 |
JAMES THE THIRD | 124 |
FLODDEN FIELD | 136 |
THE LOWLANDS AND THE BORDER DISTRICTS | 144 |
THE FRENCH ALLIANCE | 153 |
THE ARRAN REGENCY | 171 |
THE REFORMATION | 183 |
THE CAMPAIGNS OF MONTROSE | 384 |
THE CROMWELLIAN UNION | 385 |
THE RESTORATION | 419 |
THE UNION | 442 |
The HIGHLAND CLANS | 464 |
THE JACOBITE | 528 |
THE NATIONAL REVIVAL | 563 |
DISRUPTION AND REFORM | 596 |
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