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THE PENTLAND RISING
THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT
* Halt, passenger ; take heed what thou dost see,
This tomb doth show for what some men did die.'
Monument, Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh,
1661-1668. 1
Two hundred years ago a tragedy was enacted in
Scotland, the memory whereof has been in great
measure lost or obscured by the deep tragedies which
followed it. It is, as it were, the evening of the
night of persecution — a sort of twilight, dark indeed
to us, but light as the noonday when compared with
'the midnight gloom which followed. This fact, of
its being the very threshold of persecution, lends it,
however, an additional interest.
The prejudices of the people against Episcopacy
were 'out of measure increased, 1 says Bishop Burnet,
' by the new incumbents who were put in the places
of the ejected preachers, and were generally very
mean and despicable in all respects. They were the
worst preachers I ever heard ; they were ignorant to
1 Theater of Mortality, p. 10 ; Edin. 1713.
THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT
* Halt, passenger ; take heed what thou dost see,
This tomb doth show for what some men did die.'
Monument, Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh,
1661-1668. 1
Two hundred years ago a tragedy was enacted in
Scotland, the memory whereof has been in great
measure lost or obscured by the deep tragedies which
followed it. It is, as it were, the evening of the
night of persecution — a sort of twilight, dark indeed
to us, but light as the noonday when compared with
'the midnight gloom which followed. This fact, of
its being the very threshold of persecution, lends it,
however, an additional interest.
The prejudices of the people against Episcopacy
were 'out of measure increased, 1 says Bishop Burnet,
' by the new incumbents who were put in the places
of the ejected preachers, and were generally very
mean and despicable in all respects. They were the
worst preachers I ever heard ; they were ignorant to
1 Theater of Mortality, p. 10 ; Edin. 1713.
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1896 [Date published] |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] |
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1894-1898 [Date printed] |
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Distributor] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] Longmans, Green, and Co. [Publisher] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Editor] |
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