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Towards the Union: Time to stop the violence and restrain the headstrong multitude

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20061123
Author:Paul Riddell

AS WELL as his letters to his spymaster, Robert Harley, Daniel Defoe produced, long after the union, a book entitled The History of the Union between England and Scotland. While this work was obviously a post-hoc justification of his behaviour, it illuminates much of what went on. Defoe observed in late November:

The Lord Chancellor acquainted the Parliament, that last night, His Grace, Her Majesty's High Commissioner, in his return to the Palace, was insulted by a number of people of the meanest degree, with stones, which was a high affront both to Her Majesty's High Commissioner and to the ...

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