 | William Shee - 1862 - 326 pages
...The estates of Scotland found and declared, " that James VII. had invaded the fundamental laws of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power, and had governed the same to the subversion of the Protestant religion and violation... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1837 - 744 pages
...law, but bad by the advice of evil and wicked counsellors, invaded the fundamental Constitution of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary, despotic power, whereby he had forefaulted the Crown, and the throne was become vacant ;" thus by simply... | |
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... of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal and limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power, and had governed the same to the subversion of the Protestant religion, and violation of the laws and liberties of the nation, inverting all the ends... 
