House of Lords.- Remembrances for Order and decency to be kept in the Upper house of Parliament by the Lords, manuscript, engraved bookplate of John Gordon, Earl of Sutherland, original red gilt panelled morocco, [c. 1714].

House of Lords.- Remembrances for Order and decency to be kept in the Upper house of Parliament by the Lords, when His Majesty is not there, manuscript in an attractive Italic hand, 77pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, engraved bookplate of John Gordon, Earl of Sutherland on front pastedown, modern bookseller's description tipped-in on blank fly-leaf, original red gilt panelled morocco, corners slightly bumped, gilt panelled spine with gilt floral decoration, a little rubbed, g.e., 8vo, [c. 1714].

⁂ John Sutherland, sixteenth Earl of Sutherland (bap. 1661, d. 1733), army officer and politician; a commissioner for the union of England and Scotland; a Scottish representative peer in four parliaments, president of the Board of Trade and manufactures, and lord-lieutenant of the eight northern counties of Scotland; aided in putting down the Jacobite Rising of 1715. In 1719 his men took part in the battle at Glensheil, which brought to a close the first Jacobite rising.