THE MARTYRS AND COVENANTERS OF SCOTLAND/1849/1ST EDITION THUS

Description: The Martyrs and Covenanters of Scotland. NY: Robert Carter & Brothers 1849. 1st Edition thus. 6 ¼ x 4. [2], 1,6-233, [6] pp. Bound in a tight woven green/black cloth with rather elaborate gilt designs. Elaborate in that they could be flowers on from a score by Beethoven. Gilt dulled front cover but no loss. Spine and rear cover gilt bright and clean. Corner tips and spine ends worn. Cloth dulled at edges. Text block gilt (aeg). Neither joint nor hinge cracked. Some foxing and spotting but generally clean especially the last 100 pages. Binding tight. No author is listed in this book. Iterations appeared as early as Alexander Shields “A Short Memorial” in 1690. Another was Daniel Defoe’s “Memoirs of the Church of Scotland” of 1717. By 1849 the list of martyrs and information therein was different to some extent. The Defoe “Summary of the Sufferings of Covenanters” is included at the end. The Martyrs and Covenanters of Scotland is a biographical book first published in 1849 that chronicles the struggles and sacrifices of the Covenanters, a group of Scottish Presbyterians who resisted religious and political tyranny in the 17th century. The Covenanters believed that Christ was the head of their church and refused to accept the king’s claim to that role, or to allow Episcopalian bishops or liturgy in their services. They met illegally for worship in the hills and on the moors, and government troops would pursue them, sometimes shooting them as they fled. Others were captured, tried, and sentenced to execution or banishment into slavery. King Charles I was the monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the Wars of the Covenant, which took place between 1639 and 1651. The Covenanters were a Scottish religious and political movement that opposed Charles I’s attempts to impose Anglicanism on the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Movement began in 1637 when Charles I introduced the Book of Common Prayer to the Church of Scotland, claimed to be its spiritual head, and declared that opposition to his rule would be treason. 1n 1638, thousands of Scots signed the National Covenant, pledging to resist Charles I’s changes to the church.

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