The Lord Advocates of Scotland

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Excerpt from The Lord Advocates of Scotland: Second Series, 1834-1880 Treasurer, and the Secretary of State was the Lord Secretary. The King's Advocate became known as the Lord Advocate, and has borne that title since about the year 1600. In the reign of Charles the First the right of appointing the Lord Advocate was taken from the King and given to the Parliament. Under the Commonwealth the King's Advocate became Advocate to the Lord Protector. At the Restoration the right of appointment was, by an Act of the Estates, restored to the Crown. The Revolution, the Union, and the abolition of the Scottish Privy Council, each affected the functions and powers of the Lord Advo cate. In the eighteenth century the office of Secretary of State for Scotland was abolished, and the management of Scottish affairs passed into the hands of the Ministers in London, who acted under the advice of the Lord Advocate, by whom, as time went on, more and more in¿uence in political affairs was acquired. In the year 1775 the entire patronage of Scotland was handed over to Henry Dundas, then Lord Advocate, who ruled Scotland, in various offices, till 1811. After that Lord Advocates, Scottish Lords of the Treasury, and various confidential advisers of Government, shared the management of Scotland but the Lord Advo cate was always the most prominent and powerful of these officials. His in¿uence was such that it was stated, just before the Reform Act of 1832, that the Lord Advocate of Scotland has an authority almost unlimited, and greater than that of any functionary in the British Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.