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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One : A Feuding Society -- Chapter 1 : The Roots of Violence -- Chapter 2 : Peace and Persuasion -- Chapter 3 : Local Issues -- Chapter 4 : A Local Example: The Cunningham-Montgomery Feud -- Part Two : Politics and Feud -- Chapter 5 : Feud, Faction and the Court -- Chapter 6 : Court and Locality: the Huntly-Moray Feud -- Part Three : Uprooting the Feud -- Chapter 7 : Ideology - Christians and Gentlemen -- Chapter 8 : Personnel - Magistrates and Servants -- Chapter 9 : Legislation - Custom and Law -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Feud Statistics -- Appendix 2. Genealogies -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article deploys micro-historical analysis to understand an example of abortive diaspora among Scots who failed to make it as immigrants in early modern England. Henry Clerk was the son of a middle-ranking Midlothian baronet who made a doomed effort to build a new life for himself in London between 1698 and 1702. A series of dozens of surviving letters between Clerk and his family members in Scotland allow us to trace his migration experience in unusual detail. This evidence makes his case an excellent candidate for micro-historical reconstruction, and in undertaking such an exercise this article seeks to ask what the nature and circumstances of his failure can tell us about the wider process of migrant assimilation in early modern Britain, as well as the challenges confronted by individuals seeking to make a new life in a new location.

This is the third volume in The History of the Scottish Parliament. In volumes 1 and 2 the contributors addressed discrete episodes in political history from the early thirteenth century through to 1707, demonstrating the richness of the sources for such historical writing and the importance of parliament to that history. In Volume 3 the contributors have built on that foundation and taken advantage of the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to discuss a comprehensive range of key themes in the development of parliament. The editors, Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, have assembled a team of established and younger scholars who each discuss a theme that ranges over the entire six centuries of the parliament's existence. These include broad, interpretive chapters on each of the key political constituencies represented in parliament. Thus Roland Tanner and Gillian MacIntosh write on parliament and the crown, Roland Tanner and Kirsty McAlister discuss parliament and the church, Keith Brown addresses parliament and the nobility and Alan MacDonald examines parliament and the burghs. Cross-cutting themes are also analysed. The political culture of parliament is the subject of a chapter by Julian Goodare, while parliament and the law, political ideas and social control are dealt with in turn by Mark Godfrey, James Burns and Alastair Mann. Finally, parliament's own procedures are also discussed by Alastair Mann. The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in Context offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the workings and significance of this important institution to the history of late medieval and early modern Scotland.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Preface -- 1 Balancing Acts: The Crown and Parliament -- 2 The First Estate: Parliament and the Church -- 3 The Second Estate: Parliament and the Nobility -- 4 The Third Estate: Parliament and the Burghs -- 5 House Rules: Parliamentary Procedure -- 6 Parliament and the Law -- 7 The Law of the Person: Parliament and Social Control -- 8 Political Ideas and Parliament -- 9 Parliament and Politics -- Index