The History of Scotland From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of Scotland From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Vol. 7 The Two Parties In The North The Power Of Huntly Forces Available In The South Of Scotland - General Alexander Leslie The Scots Trained In The Thirty Years' War Collection Of Money And Recruiting - The Great General Assembly At Glasgow Its Importance And Picturesqueness The Recovery Of The Records - The Abolition Of The Episcopal Hierarchy Reconstruction Of The Church - End Of A Great Ecclesiastical Controversy - A Covenanting Army Sent Northward Appearance In Aberdeen - Montrose And Huntly Capture And Removal Of Huntly Lord Lewis Gordon - Trot Of Turriff - First Blood Drawn In The Great War. When Huntly, the natural leader of the king's party in the north, died in 1636, his son George, the heir of the house, was in France, commanding a company of gens d'armes. He had not long returned home when it became clear that the Royalist and Cavalier party must look to him as the centre of their strength, and soon after the period which we have reached he was appointed the king's Lieutenant in the north. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.