<title>The Lord Beilhaven's speech in the Scotch Parliament [...] on the subject-matter of an union betwixt the two kingdoms [...]

Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus T34/4184 1706 octavo John Hamilton, second Lord Beilhaven Edinburgh (?) Privy Councillor; military employments; MScotP; tax and excise farmer aristocracy (baron) professions (law), later gentry opposed the union; supporter of the Darien scheme; married Margaret, granddoughter of John Hamilton, first Lord Beilhaven in 1675: title settled on the present John Hamilton by the above's intervention British affairs (union of England and Scotland) speech discourse body