General defence. At a general meeting of the deputy-lieutenants, freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and heritors of the county of Mid-Lothian, called by His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, ... and held at Edinburgh on Monday, the 30th day of April 1798. ... His Grace the Lord Lieutenant stated the purpose for which this meeting had been called, and laid before them the late act "for enabling His Majesty more effectually to provide for the defence and security of the realm," ...
Midlothian (Scotland)
[Edinburgh,
1798]
ESTC