 Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia, composed of the most violent and profligate of those who called themselves Episcopalians. Pre-eminent among the bands...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2731905Full view - About this book
 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - 1871 - 720 pages
...describes Claverhouse, in a very different manner from that of the fiction of Sir Walter Scott : " Pre-eminent among the bands which oppressed and wasted...unhappy districts were the dragoons commanded by John Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the torments... | |
 | 1860 - 796 pages
...indeed such courage can be called a virtue, he allows him. A few lines suffice for the sketch : — " Pre-eminent among the bands which oppressed and wasted...unhappy districts, were the dragoons commanded by John Grahame of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the torments... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...he ruled Scotland as Vicegerent, waxed hotter than ever from the day on which he became sovereign. Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous...these unhappy districts were the dragoons commanded by James Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...became sovereign. Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia,...these unhappy districts were the dragoons commanded by James Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 40 pages
...Macaulay says : "Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia,...unhappy districts were the dragoons, commanded by James Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...comments : — " Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia,...which oppressed and wasted these unhappy districts wore the dragoons, commanded by James Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...became sovereign. Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia,...composed of the most violent and profligate of those who • His own words reported by himself. Clarke's Life of James the Second, I. 656. Orig. Mem. " Act... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...became sovereign. Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia,...these unhappy districts were the dragoons commanded by James Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 714 pages
...most numerous were given up to the license of the Scotch c"~ T.,. 11 • ti •!• • i venanters. army. With the army was mingled a militia, composed...unhappy districts were the dragoons commanded by John Graham of Claverhouse. The story ran that these wicked men used in their revels to play at the torments... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1852 - 364 pages
...Macaulay says : "Those shires in which the Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. "With the army was mingled a militia,...composed, of the most violent and profligate of those Avho called themselves Episcopalians. Pre-eminent among the bands which oppressed and wasted these... | |
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