Author: Thomas ThomsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333546540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Excerpt from A History of the Scottish People From the Earliest Times, Vol. 4 In the meantime the power of the queen's party was gradually declining. The return and restoration of their mistress, which they had so long entertained and which had been so often equivocally promised, was now more faint than ever; and against the heart of the nation, which was confirmed in opposition to their cause, the lords of the Marian faction, even with the chief fortresses of the kingdom in their possession, could only maintain an unequal con ict. The assistance from abroad, also, on which they had calculated, when it arrived was found so trivial, consisting chie y of small sums of money and supplies of arms, that far from being enough to restore a banished queen to her throne, it was scarcely adequate to the purposes of a mere popular insurrection. And soon also their chief Opportunity of receiving such supplies was to be wrested from them. We allude to the cap ture of the castle of Dumbarton by the king's party - one of the boldest, ablest, and most suc cessful exploits of this unhappy civil war. 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."
