The Committee of Estates governed Scotland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1638–1651) when the Parliament of Scotland was not sitting. It was dominated...

weakened by the presence of representatives of the Committee of Estates on his chain of command in the person of the Earl of Balcarres. In Mac Colla's...

and capitulated on 9 October 1648) to his fate. The Earl of Lanark and the Committee of Estates, anxious to hold Cromwell back from carrying the pursuit...

Thomas MacLellan was given command of one of the seven regiments raised by the Committee of Estates for the defense of Scotland and against Royalist forces...

The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early...

of the Marquis of Montrose was destroyed by the Covenanter army of Sir David Leslie, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates. When the Covenanters...

Scottish Committee of Estates decided to intervene in the English Civil War on the Parliamentarian side, the Royalist party sought to find ways of tying...

and member of the Committee of Estates. Sir George was the son of Sir John Buchanan and Anabella, daughter of Adam Erskine, commendator of Cambuskenneth...

Graham, Marquis of Montrose at the Battle of Philiphaugh (September 1645) and was rewarded by the committee of estates with a present of 50,000 merks and...

the approval of the "Committee of Estates", consisting of the Earls of Argyll, Crawford and Tullibardine, and the Lords Elcho, and Balfour of Burleigh, together...

and the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, which allowed Royalists whose estates had been sequestrated to compound for their estates – pay a...

expenses of his attendance from the Kirk session of Stow, Midlothian. In 1646 he was one of seven commissioners appointed by the Committee of Estates to wait...

politics of the Covenanters. In 1648, he participated in the Committee of Estates, the governing body of Scotland during the period of the Wars of the Three...

I, being crowned King of Scotland. It was presented to the Committee of Estates by Sir George Maxwell, at Stirling, on 22nd of that month. Those who supported...

the Committee of Estates in Edinburgh in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. He failed to attend and was declared a rebel by the Privy Council of Scotland...

later stages of the hunt the Parliament and its representative body the Committee of Estates supervised the trials more closely, and instead of issuing commissions...

subsequently refused a commission from the Committee of Estates appointing him as their Lieutenant north of the Spey and was excommunicated by the General...

gallantry in action at the forcing of the River Tyne at Newburn. On 27 May 1641 he was summoned before the Committee of Estates and charged with intrigues against...

sold his home in Trousdale Estates for a reported $19.5 million. Trousdale Estates plays a role in Seasons Two and Three of the Showtime TV series Ray...

in improving drainage etc. In 1854 a select committee of the House of Lords concluded that the small estates in Ireland should be sold. 7,000 acres (2,800 ha)...

the Three Estates (Scots: Thrie Estaitis), or "three communities of the realm" (tres communitates), until 1690 composed of: the first estate of prelates...

whose estates were excepted and forfeited to the Commonwealth (See Appendix A), and like the Royal estates, this was backdated to cover the estates as they...

chairman of Towngas China. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, a member of the National Committee of the...

of Régiment de Douglas in France when his brother Lord James Douglas, was killed in action. Member of committee of estates in 1650. Created Earl of Ormond...

power of the Committee of Estates. Dunaverty Castle was a MacDonald stronghold. During the Civil War, it was besieged in 1647 by Scottish supporters of Oliver...

led to the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789, its first meeting since 1614. The representatives of the Third Estate broke away and re-constituted...

A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself...

favour of the baronet, and that he had not been forfeited of his estates. The Forfeited Estates Commissioners however appealed to the House of Lords,...

Environment (Amendment) Act 2011. In mid-1644, after the Scottish Committee of Estates decided to intervene in the First English Civil War on the Parliamentarian...

shareholder of Chinese Estates Holdings when he acquired a 43% stake in the company through Evergo in 1986. Since then, he's expanded his real estate investments...