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See also:FLETCHER, See also:ANDREW , of Saltoun (1655—1716), Scottish politician, was the son and See also:heir of See also:Sir See also:Robert Fletcher (1625-1664), and was See also:born at Saltoun, the See also:modern Salton, in See also:East See also:Lothian. Educated by See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:Burnet, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury, who was then the See also:parish See also:minister of Saltoun, he completed his See also:education by spending some years in travel and study, entering public See also:life as member of the Scottish See also:parliament which met in 1681. Possessing advanced See also:political ideas, Fletcher was a fearless and active opponent of the See also:measures introduced by See also:John See also:Maitland, See also:duke of See also:Lauderdale, the representative of
See also:Charles II. in See also:Scotland, and Ws successor, the duke of Moak, afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James IL; but he See also:left Scotland about 1682, subsequently spending some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland as an See also:associate of the duke of See also:Monmouth and other malcontents.
Although on grounds of prudence Fletcher objected to the rising of 1685, he accompanied Monmouth to the See also:west of See also:England, but left the See also:army after killing one of the duke's trusted advisers. This incident is thus told by Sir John Dalrymple:
" Being sent upon an expedition, and not esteeming times of danger to be times of ceremony, he had seized for his own ridiig the See also:horse of a See also:country See also:gentleman (the See also:mayor of Lynne) which stood ready equipt for its See also:master. The master See also:hearing this ran in a See also:passion to Fletcher, gave him opprobrious See also:language, shook his See also:cane and attempted to strike. Fletcher, though rigid in the duties of morality, yet having been accustomed to See also:foreign services both by See also:sea and See also:land in which he had acquired high ideas of the See also:honour of a soldier and a gentleman and of the affront of a cane, pulled out his See also:pistol and shot him dead on the spot. The See also:action was unpopular in countries where such refinements were not understood. A clamour was raised against it among the See also:people of the country: in a See also:body they waited upon the duke with their complaints; and he was forced to See also:desire the only soldier and almost the only See also:man of parts in his army, to abandon him."
Another, but less probable See also:account, represents Fletcher as quitting the See also:rebel army because he disapproved of the action of Monmouth in proclaiming himself king.
His See also:history during the next few years is, rather obscure. He probably travelled in See also:Spain, and fought against the See also:Turks in See also:Hungary; and having in his See also:absence lost his estates and been sentenced to See also:death, he joined See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also:Orange at the See also:Hague, and returned to Scotland in 1689 in consequence of the success of the Revolution of 1688. His estates were restored to him; and he soon became a leading member of the "See also:club," an organization which aimed at reducing the See also:power of the See also:crown in Scotland, and in See also:general an active opponent of the See also:English See also:government. In 1703, at a See also:critical See also:stage in the history of Scotland, Fletcher again became a member of the Scottish parliament. The failure of the See also:Darien expedition had aroused a strong feeling of resentment against England, and Fletcher and the See also:national party seized the opportunity to obtain a greater degree of See also:independence for their country.
His attitude in this See also:matter, and also to the proposal for the See also:union of the two crowns, is thus described by a writer in the third edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica:
" The thought of England's domineering over Scotland was what his generous soul could not endure. The indignities and oppression which Scotland See also:lay under galled him to the See also:heart, so that in his learned and elaborate discourses he exposed them with undaunted courage and pathetical eloquence. In that See also:great event, the Union, he performed essential service. He got the See also:act of See also:security passed, which declared that the two crowns should not pass to the same See also:head till Scotland was secured in her liberties See also:civil and religious. There-fore See also:Lord See also:Godolphin was forced into the Union, to avoid a civil See also:war after the See also:queen's See also:demise. Although Mr Fletcher disapproved of some of the articles, and indeed of the whole See also:frame of the Union, yet, as the act of security was his own See also:work, he had all the merit of that important transaction."
Soon after the passing of the Act of Union' Fletcher retired from public life. Employing his abilities in another direction, he did a real, if homely, service to his country by introducing from Holland machinery for sifting See also:grain. He died unmarried in See also:London in See also:September 1716.
Contemporaries speak very highly of Fletcher's integrity, but he was also choleric and impetuous. Burnet describes him as " a Scotch gentleman of great parts and many virtues, but a most violent republican and extremely passionate." In See also:appearance he was " a See also:low, thin man, of a See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown complexion; full of See also:fire; with a stern, sour look." Fletcher was a See also:fine See also:scholar and a graceful writer, and both his writings and speeches afford See also:bright glimpses of the See also:manners and See also:state of the country in his time. His See also:chief See also:works are: A Discourse of Government See also:relating to Militias (1698); Two Discourses concerning the Affairs of Scotland (1698); and An Account of a Conversation concerning a right regulation of Governments for the See also:common See also:good of Mankind (1704). In Two Discourses he suggests that the numerous vagrants who infested Scotland should be brought into compulsory and hereditary See also:servitude; and in An Account of a
Conversation occurs his well-known remark, "I knew a very See also:wise man so much of Sir See also:Christopher's (Sir C. See also:Musgrave) sentiment, that he believed if amanwere permitted to make all the See also:ballads, he need not care who should make the See also:laws of a nation."
The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher were published in London in-17737. See D. S. See also:Erskine, I ith See also:earl of See also:Buchan, See also:Essay an the Lives of Fletcher of Saltounand :the Poet See also:Thomson (1792); J. H. See also:Burton, History of Scotland, vol. viii, (See also:Edinburgh, 1905); and A. See also:Lang, History of Scotland, vol. iv. (Edinburgh, 1907).
End of Article: FLETCHER, ANDREW
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