Excerpt from The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, From 1624-1645 The period embraced by the narrative of spalding is one of the most eventful in the annals of our country. Lately emerging from the thraldom of Popery, our countrymen could have no friendly regard for those parts of our civil institutions that were designed to limit the rights which they believed inherent in man. As a natural consequence, a struggle commenced between those who wished to retain that dominion over the mind which ignorance alone will brook, and those who were anxious that our legislative polity should keep pace in liberality with the new ecclesiastical regime. 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.