Conservative MSP David McLetchie recalled the original Claim of Right, passed by the old Scots Parliament in 1689, which declared King James VII (James II of England) had forfeited the throne "because he had sought to change what it described as the fundamental constitution of the kingdom from a legal, limited monarchy to an arbitrary, despotic power".

BBC: SNP takes new Claim of Right approach

In 1685, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, in Somerset, England, the troops of King James II defeated the mainly peasant supporters of the Duke of Monmouth.

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