The Church of the Covenant 1637-1651

The Church of the Covenant 1637-1651 by Walter Makey
English | August 1, 2003 | ISBN: 1904607314 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.2 MB
The troubles of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland were the final episode in a long revolutionary process which had begun more than a century earlier. The changes of the intervening years - most of them gradual and imperceptible - were barely visible but their cumulative impact was profound. Charles I inherited a social revolution; he found a society already transformed and a power structure still in the process of transformation. Scotland was inherently unstable, and the unending conflict between king, baron and churchman was therefore accentuated.