This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...it was but the prelude to horrors of an unutterably more dreadful aspect. The unfortunate prisoners were stripped almost naked, and compelled to lie down upon the ground, while a strong guard kept watch over them, and fired upon them if but a single man raised his head or turned his body where he lay. Next day they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...it was but the prelude to horrors of an unutterably more dreadful aspect. The unfortunate prisoners were stripped almost naked, and compelled to lie down upon the ground, while a strong guard kept watch over them, and fired upon them if but a single man raised his head or turned his body where he lay. Next day they were bound together two and two, and driven to Edinburgh by the brutal soldiery, like cattle to a slaughterhouse. There they were enclosed within the Grey friar's churchyard for a period of five months, half-naked, half-starved, and exposed to all the vicissitudes of the season, unsheltered save by the tombstones, and a few rude sheds erected towards the close of the autumnal months. In the mean time, Claverhouse and some others proposed to burn Glasgow and Hamilton, and lay the surrounding country waste; but to these savage proposals he Duke of Monmouth would not give lis consent; and even exerted himself to sheck the severities of the council, and mitigate the sufferings of the persecuted insurgents. A proclamation was, however, speedily issued, containing a list of the gentlemen and ministers supposed to be implicated in what was termed "the late rebellion," declaring them traitors, adding, " or any others who concurred or joined in it." An indemnity was soon after published for all who would submit, but it was so ample in its exceptions as to be a nullity, so far as regarded the insurgents, A bond was also formed to be offered to the prisoners, the terms of which were such that few of them felt at liberty to subscribe it, even to save themselves from death or banishment. They could not conscientiously term the insurrection " rebellion j" and they would not bind themselves to take up arms in self-defence. Yet this...
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Add this copy of History of the Church of Scotland to cart. $43.00, good condition, Sold by BingoBooks2 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1870 by ROBERT CARTER.
