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15. necessary to have money to Supply these additional expences; the Common People were great sufferers on account of this, for the King grew despotick, & the Nobles on their side lay'd heavier taxes on their Vassals than they had been accustom'd to: the great Feudal rights that were vested in the Nobles grew at this time to be insturments of oppression upon their Vassals, the Military Ideas on which they were founded being entir'ly lost.

After James's death Scotland was not look'd upon in the partial light it had been during his Reign; Charls I. little regarded that Nobility; they taking fire at some encroachments of his upon their order made complaints which were not redress'd, upon which they appear'd arm'd against him; Charles sent English Troops to quel this rising, but his unhappy quarrels with the English Nation check'd the Vigour of his Actions