STUDIES IN

SCOTTISH ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

"A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND CHIEFLY IN ITS ECCLESIASTICAL ASPECT

FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY UNTIL THE

DEATH OF JAMES VI.," "A SONG BOOK OF

THE SOUL," ETC.

OTHECA

LONDON

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO.

EDINBURGH: R. GRANT & SON

1898

BX

9071 K55

the attempt to treat them exhaustively in about 340 pages would be vain. Miss Kinloch has not made the attempt. Her purpose has been to make the denizens of that noisy period pass in rapid panorama before the reader, and to show the characteristics of each of the great personages in the drama in graphic outline. While Miss Kinloch does not seek to hide her feelings. of indignation towards those who fomented disputes in the Protestant Church, she narrates the facts in so attractive a style that her book is pleasant to read, despite the terrible tragedies it contains.

It cannot be

said that she has made any fresh discoveries
of documents, though the book is dated
from Rome, where inexhaustible, materials
bearing upon this period must be preserved
in the Vatican. Referring to the time suc-
ceeding the Restoration of 1660 she says:-
"The records of the Catholic Church in
Scotland during these years, indeed during
the whole of the seventeenth century, are
scanty and poor. This statement is only
partially correct. The materials are scanty
because the Roman Catholic historians have
not looked for them. In the Vatican, the
Record Office, London, and among the!
Additional MSS. in the British Museum |
there

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WICKHAM, of 20 Christ Church Road, Win THEL MARY, only daughter of the Rev. H. ANK, Assistant Master of Winchester College, to tother of the bride, the Rev. A. H. CRUICK. de College, and the Rev. P. R. Wickham, .D., assisted by the Rev. G. B. Lee, Warden of the 30th July, by the Rev. W. A. Fearon, At the College Chapel, S. Mary's, Winchester,

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PREFATORY NOTE.

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 remnant 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, will be found to be thrown on the subject by the allusions to the organisation, the discipline, and the temper of the dominant religious body.

ROME, 28th April 1898.

M. G. J. KINLOCH.

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