• Source: 1705 in Scotland

Events from the year 1705 in the Kingdom of Scotland.




Incumbents


Monarch – Anne
Secretary of State –
until March: John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe jointly with James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield
March–June: John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe jointly with William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
June–September: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale jointly with Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun
from September: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, jointly with John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar




= Law officers

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Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
Solicitor General for Scotland – William Carmichael




= Judiciary

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Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
Lord Justice General – Lord Tarbat
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Whitelaw, then Lord Ormiston




Events


30 January – Janet Cornfoot is killed by a mob, and Thomas Brown is starved to death, for accusations of witchcraft at Pittenweem subsequently exposed as perjuries.
14–19 February – date of first Edinburgh Courant newspaper published, by printer James Watson.
March – the Parliament of England passes the Alien Act in response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act of Security 1704; it is repealed in December without taking effect.
11 April – English captain Thomas Green and two of his crew are hanged at Leith for alleged piracy on the Malabar Coast.
20 July – Act of the Parliament of Scotland for the promotion of salmon, white and herring fishing.
September – negotiations for a Treaty of Union with England are resumed. At about this time, the independent pro-Union group around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, is first nicknamed the Squadrone Volante.
Lord Archibald Campbell appointed Lord High Treasurer of Scotland.




Births


2 March – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, judge and politician (died 1793)
5 May – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, noble and military leader (died 1782)
Date unknown

David Mallet, writer (died 1765)




Deaths


11 March – Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss (born 1659)
14 March – James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (born 1674)
Date unknown

Alexander Arbuthnot, politician (born 1654)




See also


Timeline of Scottish history




References

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