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Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the political spectrum, will interrogate from various angles the assumption of a binary opposition between organic Scottish values and those supposedly imposed by an overbearing imperial England. Viewing Scottish literature as a clash between Scottish and English identities loses sight of the internal Scottish political and religious divisions, which, far more than issues of nationhood and union, were the primary sources of conflict in Scottish culture for most of the period of Union, until at least the early twentieth century. The aim of the volume is to reconstruct the story of Scottish literature along lines which are more historically persuasive than those of the prevailing grand narratives in the field. The chapters fall into three groups: (1) those which highlight canonical moments in Scottish literary Unionism--John Bull, 'Rule, Britannia', Humphry Clinker, Ivanhoe and England, their England; (2) those which investigate key themes and problems, including the Unions of 1603 and 1707, Scottish Augustanism, the Burns Cult, Whig-Presbyterian and sentimental Jacobite literatures; and (3) comparative pieces on European and Anglo-Irish phenomena.

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The Montgomery manuscripts. containing accounts of the colonization of the Ardes, in the county of Down, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James. Memoirs of the first, second, and third Viscounts Montgomery, and Captain George Montgomery: also, a description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...Knokdone, in the parish of Cumnock. (Inq. Ret., Lib. xix. f. 240.) He is seized in the lands of Nether Auchindrain, conform to sasine in his favor, recorded at Ayr, August 8, 1654, (Par. Reg. Ayrs., vol. ix. f. 301-2, ) which proceeds upon a precept of dare constat, (dated June 16, 1654, ) by the Earl of Eglinton, to the effect, "that the deceist John Montgomerie, father to Hew Montgomerie, now of Brigend, eldest laufull sone of vmq" William Montgomerie, guidsir to the said Hew, in all and haill the five merk land of auld extent of Nether Auchindraine, commonly called Brigend, with tower, fortalice, manor place, yeards, orchards, wudes, milnes thereof, als weil corn mylnes, as Walk mylnes, and fishings of the samen, with all and sundrie their pendicles and pertinents, upon the watter of Done, lyeand within the earldom of Carrick and shireffdome of Ayr "He also had sasine of the four merk land of Constable, in King's Kyle, recorded at Ayr, August 8, of the same year; of the baronies of Eister and Wester Loudoune, Barmuir, and Tarrinzeane, upon a charter from James Dunlop of that Ilk, recorded at Ayr, October 10, 1666; and of five acres and a half of land of John Wasoun's lands of Caricloy, Mauchline, recorded July 17, 1671.1 He married, in the year 1653, Katharine, second daughter of Sir William Scott of Clerkington, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. The marriage settlement of this couple is still in existence, in a fair state of preservation; the roll is upwards of seven and a half feet long, filled in with clerkly penmanship; the beginning is somewhat worn away, and the edges have seen some rough usage. The autographs of all the parties immediately interested are intact: "W. Scott, of Clerkintoun, ...