* August 18 – Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro, are beheaded in the Tower ( Lord Lovat was executed in 1747 ).

In 1747, the Lord Mayor went to Westminster Hall on a barge via the River Thames.

The first organised hunt for the benefit of a group ( rather than a single patron ) was started by Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax in 1747.

It is 30 m high and was built to Flitcroft's design in 1747 – 48 to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion, in which Lord Malton and his surviving son took part ; his defensive efforts for the Hanoverian Whig establishment were rewarded with the Lord Lieutenancy of Yorkshire and the title Marquess of Rockingham: thus the monument indirectly reflects the greater glory of the family.

Under Lord Eldon, Chancery procedure was further reformed with a pair of orders published in 1741 and 1747, which mandated that a claimant who brought his case to court and had it dismissed immediately should pay full costs to the other side, rather than the 40 shillings previously paid, and that parties filing bills of review should pay £ 50 for the privilege.

In June 1747, Grenville became a Lord of the Treasury.

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat ( c. 1667 – 9 April 1747, London ), was a Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser, who was famous for his violent feuding and his changes of allegiance.

* Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames ( 1747 ), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States

* Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank ( 1747 – 1820 ), Scottish peer

* Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat ( 1667 – 1747 ), Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser

: Other titles: Earl of Kildare ( 1316 ), Earl of Offaly ( 1761 ), Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham ( GB 1747 ) and Lord of Offaly ( c.

: Other titles: Marquesse of Kildare ( 1761 ), Earl of Kildare ( 1316 ), Earl of Offaly ( 1761 ), Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham ( GB 1747 ) and Lord of Offaly ( c.

Under a previous commander, Lord Anson, it had successfully contained the French coast and in May 1747 won the First Battle of Cape Finisterre when it attacked a large convoy leaving harbour.

* The Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, for the trial of The Lord Lovat, 1747

In 1747, the Lord Mayor went to the City of Westminster on a barge via the River Thames.

Lord Downshire married firstly Lady Margaretta, daughter of Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare, in 1747.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1747 to 1751, and he died in London on 8 December 1756.

His father being at this time Lord Chancellor, Yorke obtained a sinecure appointment in the Court of Chancery in 1747, and entered parliament as member for Reigate, a seat which he afterwards exchanged for that for the University of Cambridge.

The last beheading of a peer for high treason was that of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat in 1747.

* Charles Bruce, 4th Earl of Elgin, 6th Lord Kinloss ( 1682 – 1747 )

* Alexander Murray, 7th Lord Elibank ( 1747 – 1820 )

Emanuel Swedenborg was one of the first practitioners to write extensively about the out-of-body experience, in his Spiritual Diary ( 1747 – 65 ).

Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.

Shortly afterward a similar bill was introduced into the Irish Parliament, where it passed the Commons in 1745 and 1746, but failed to pass the Lords in 1747 ; it was ultimately dropped.

In 1747 he introduced a poor-relief bill that recommended commissioning public works, such as the caves he later had excavated at West Wycombe Park, to combat unemployment, but it failed to pass.

When Louis died in 1745, Jean-Jacques, who had by then served for fifteen years as a general advocate at the court, although expected to succeed him in turn, was not yet old enough to be awarded the position, and had to wait until early 1747 to take over its presidency.

According to Peter Martin, Malone's main biographer in the 20th century: “ Virtually nothing is known of his childhood and adolescence except that in 1747 he was sent to Dr. Ford's preparatory school in Molesworth Street, Dublin, where his brother Richard had already been enrolled for two years .” The next record of his education is 10 years later, in 1757, when he — not yet 16 years old — entered Trinity College, Dublin, where his brother went to study two years earlier and where his father had received an honorary LL. D.

In 1747, when he was eighteen years old and still in school, John Penn clandestinely married a daughter of Dr. James Cox of London.

While in garrison at Bordeaux Mirabeau had made the acquaintance of Montesquieu, and after retiring from the army he wrote his first work, his Testament Politique ( 1747 ), which demanded for the prosperity of France a return of the French noblesse to their old position in the Middle Ages.

In addition to this, it is believed that there are trees in the gardens c300 years old, which places the " original " building ( prior to partial destruction by fire ) nearer the date of the construction of the church ( c. 1747 ).

Euler succeeded in proving Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares in 1747, when he was forty years old.

In the Orangist revolution of 1747 this office had been revamped to " Stadhouder-generaal " and made hereditary, and after the Prussian intervention of 1787 the powers of the Stadtholder had become dictatorial.

When the French invaded Holland in 1747, William IV was restored as the stadtholder of the entire Dutch Republic, hereditary in both the male and the female lines.

Near the end of that war in 1747 an Orangist revolution restored the stadtholderate with vastly increased powers for the stadtholder ( the stadtholderate became hereditary ).

The Heritable Jurisdictions Act of 1747 abolished the office of hereditary sheriff and the sheriff-depute soon became sheriff.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

* August 1 – The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act ( Note: the actual effective date of the Dress Act was August 1, 1747, not 1746 – see the text at Dress Act ).

* Scotland: neyfs ( serfs ) disappeared by late 14th century, but heritable jurisdictions survived until 1747.

The Sheriffs ( Scotland ) Act 1747 reduced the office of Sheriff Principal to a largely ceremonial one, with a sheriff depute or sheriff substitute appointed to each " county, shire or stewartry ".

The son of Hugh Munro of Novar, in Ross, Scotland, he was commissioned into Loudon's Highlanders in 1747.

Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1747 was tasked as chief draughtsman with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands-a " compleat and accurate survey of Scotland ".

An 1885 book about Western Scotland with a chapter on Roy's life has him a Colonel in the British Army who was trusted with the work of mapping the Highlands in 1747 by his commanding general.

As a fugitive in his own homeland in 1747, Mercer fled Scotland after months in hiding.

The earls of the second creation bore the subsidiary titles of Lord Fleming and Cumbernauld ( 1606 ) and of Lord Fleming ( 1451, Peerage of Scotland, extinct 1747 ).

At a by-election in February 1747 Grant was returned to parliament as member for the Elgin Burghs, and on 1 April 1747 was " added to the gentlemen who are appointed to prepare and bring in a bill for taking away and abolishing the heretable jurisdictions in … Scotland ".

The first modern church was built close to the river in 1747, and it was replaced in 1835 by the present Church of Scotland building on the site of an earlier small church.

Hillhead house appears on Roy's map of Scotland, 1747 and stood approximately where the grocers shop is located on Hillpark Drive.