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Excerpt from The Fifty Years Struggle of the Scottish Covenanters, 1638-88 The following Work was originally prepared as a Course of Lectures, which I have delivered, at intervals of leisure, in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, and several other of our large towns. This will account for the direct style of address which frequently occurs throughout the volume. It will be seen that this little work does not pretend to be an exhaustive history of the period selected, or properly a history at all. It is only a series of descriptive sketches, meant to represent in outline the successive phases of the Covenanting struggle. The subject is a noble one for a history, having an epic completeness - a beginning, middle, and end - with its clearly-defined half century; and I hope that some one having more ability, and more time than I have for literary labour, will yet under take the task. The main body of the narrative has been based on a careful collation of the best authorities - those contemporary, or nearly contemporary with the events. Amongst the host consulted and analysed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.