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History Rescued, in Answer to 'History Vindicated' [By A. Stewart] a Recapitulation of the 'Case for the Crown'. [With] the Case for the Crown in Re the Wigtown Martyrs Proved to Be Myths

History Rescued, in Answer to 'History Vindicated' [By A. Stewart] a Recapitulation of the 'Case for the Crown'. [With] the Case for the Crown in Re the Wigtown Martyrs Proved to Be Myths


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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. 1870. Excerpt: ... PART FIRST. THE ROMANCE OF THE WIGTOWN MARTYRS PROVED TO BE FALSE. SECTION I. Lord Macaulay's version of the Wigtown Martyrdom incredible on the face of it. By way of justifying a calumny he could not prove, and which he condescends to borrow from a sect he despised--that James II. was a monster of inhumanity, and his government of Scotland " Tophet on earth "--Lord Macaulay tells this story in his History of England: --"The eleventh of May (1685) was made remarkable by more than one great crime. On the same day two women, Margaret Maclachlan and Margaret Wilson--the former an aged widow, the latter a maiden of eighteen--suffered death for their religion in Wigtownshire. They were offered their lives if they would consent to abjure the cause of the insurgent conventiclers, and to attend the Episcopal worship. They refused, and they were sentenced to be drowned. They were carried to a spot which the Solway overflows twice a-day, and were fastened to stakes fixed in the sand between high and low water-mark. The elder sufferer was placed near to the advancing flood, in the hope that her last agonies might terrify the younger into submission. The sight was dreadful. But the courage of the survivor was sustained by an enthusiasm as lofty as any that is recorded in martyrology. She saw the sea draw nearer and nearer, but gave no sign of alarm. She prayed, and sang verses of psalms, till the waves choked her voice. After she had tasted the bitterness of death, she was, by a cruel mercy, unbound, and restored to life. When she came to herself, pitying friends and neighbours implored her to yield. 'Dear Margaret, only say, God save the Kings' The poor girl, trne to her stern theology, gasped out, 'May God save him, if it be God's will.' Her friends crowded round th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150447761
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150447761
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr

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