Studies in Scottish Ecclesiastical History: In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Studies in Scottish Ecclesiastical History: In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

IN the following pages the writer has endeavoured to give a brief account of the state of religion in Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If in them the vicissitudes and the sufferings of the Catholic rem nant are found to occupy but a comparatively small amount of space, this is due to the meagreness of the sources of information at present accessible regarding the children of the Holy See. The writer has made use of such scanty materials as were available, and trusts that some additional light, though of an indirect nature.

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