Fletcher of SaltounOmond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
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Fletcher of Saltoun
Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716
attacks the English Ministers, 72;
supports the Act of Security, 71-77;
denies the power of the Sovereign to refuse the royal assent, 79;
publishes his speeches, 84;
_An Account of a Conversation_, 86-94;
his saying about ballads, 95;
about an hereditary professor, 95;
speeches in the session of 1704, 97 _et seq._;
attacks Johnston, 98;
Sir James Halket, 98;
Hamilton, 100;
duel with Roxburghe, 121, 122;
proposes the Limitations again, 123;
moves an address against the Alien Act, 126;
attacks Hamilton, 128;
his conduct during the sessions of 1706-1707, 133-138;
story of his leaving Scotland, 138;
arrested in 1708, 142;
reasons for not marrying, 144;
conversations with Wodrow, 146-148;
his death, 148;
his place in Scottish literature, 149;
contemporary opinions of his character, 151, 152.
Fletcher, Andrew (Lord Milton), 148, 149.
---- ---- (grand-nephew of the patriot), 149.
---- Henry (brother of the patriot), 14, 33, 144, 145, 149.
---- ---- (Lieutenant-General), 149.
---- Sir Robert, 9, 10.
---- Lady (Catherine Bruce), 9, 10, 11.
Fletcher, Mrs. Henry (Margaret Carnegie), 144, 145.
Ford Abbey, 28.
Forfar, Earl of, 63.
Fountainhall, Lord, 14, 19, 23.
Glasgow, Earl of, 114.
---- Burnet, Professor, at, 12.
Gloucester, Duke of, 11.
Godolphin, writes to Athole as to the Act of Security, 76;
attacked for advising the Queen to give the royal assent,
101, 102;
his views about Scotland, 102;
explains the position to the House of Lords, 105;
letters to him from Glasgow, Seafield, and Annandale, 111, 112.
---- _Correspondence_, in the British Museum, 117, _note_.
Gordon, Duke of, 142.
Grand Resolve, The, 69.
---- Marquis de, 20.
Grant, The Laird of, 18.
Grey, Lord, of Wark, 24, 26, 27.
Haarlem, Fletcher at, 21.
Hague, Fletcher at, 39.
Halifax, Lord, 21, 106, 132.
Halket, Sir James, 98.
Hamilton, James, fourth Duke of, leads the Country Party, 65, 66;
supports Fletcher against the Government, 72;
protests against the adjournment of the House, 74;
conduct in the session of 1704, 97 _et seq._;
quarrel with Fletcher, 100;
moves that the Queen should appoint the Commissioners on Union,
128.
---- William, Duke of, 14, 45, 46.
Hampden, in the Whig Plot, 20.
Hanover, Elector of, 132.
Haversham, Lord, his speech in Scotland, 104.
_Helderenberg_, the frigate, 26, 27, 30, 31, 37.
Hepburn of Humbie, 16.
‘Hereditary Professor,’ 95.
Highlanders, Fletchers opinion of, 54, 57.
Historical Account of the Rights and Powers of the Parliament of
Scotland, 85.
Holland, Shaftesbury escapes to, 20;
Fletcher visits, 21.
Howard in the Whig Plot, 20.
Hume, Sir David, 98, 133, 134.
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