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Bishops and Covenanters - The Church in Scotland, 1688-1691 (Paperback)
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Bishops and Covenanters - The Church in Scotland, 1688-1691 (Paperback)
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Why did the young Protestant monarch William of Orange fail to make
his mark on Scotland? How did a particularly hard-line 'Protester'
branch of Presbyterianism (the last off-shoot of the Convenanting
movement) become the established Church in Scotland? And how did it
come about that Scotland suffered a kind of 'cultural revolution'
after the Williamite revolution, nipping in the bud the
proto-Enlightenment? This book reviews the political events that
led to the abolition of episcopacy in 1689 and with it the
concerted attack on the parish clergy. It explores for the first
time the background and influences that led to the brutal 'rabbling
of the curates' in south-west Scotland. It explores the mind-set of
the notorious Covenanting tract Naphtali (1667), and of its author
Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, who was the author of the Act
establishing hard-line Presbyterianism in 1690, and became Lord
Advocate of Scotland in 1692. The purges of the universities after
the 1690 Act led to a hardening of attitudes, and the on-going
purging of the parishes led ultimately to the emptying of
two-thirds of all the parishes of Scotland. The book suggests how
these events contributed to the notion of 'King William's ill
years'.
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