Act of Security Passed by the Scottish Parliament. This Allowed Scotland to Choose a Successor to Queen Anne, Other Than the One Elected by the English Parliament, if Scottish Conditions Were Not Met. This Precipitated the Demands in London for an Act Of
← Birth of William Fortescuem, politician and sportsman, who tried unsuccessfully in the 1760s to introduce a bill to preserve partridges and hares and to take away the lives of above half the dogs in the nation