History of the Covenanters in Scotland
History of the Covenanters in Scotland
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Nay, the * Wodrow, vol. ill. p. 385. — ^From this anecdote, which 18 one of many of a similar kind, the reader is left to judge whether there be any truth in the asser- tion, that Claverhouse *' would scorn to rob any private individual of a farthing !**— So says a modern writer.
Digitized by Google 1682.3 THE COVENANTERS. 171 pitiful persecutor again surprised the house of the widow at midnight, under pretence of Bearc&ing for h^ son, and hefore leaving it, compelled her to give him twenty mer...iu — "nearly all her living I* But the inhumanity of the oppressors was not confined to deeds of extortion ; they add- ^d the most rev6lting cruelty to avarice, and acted a part which woidd puzzle the most iui* veterate Tory writer to vindicate. In the pa- rish of Kilbride, for example, Captain Inglis having seized three countrymen, who refused to swear the oath which he was {leased to dictate, deliberately tortured them by means of lighted matches bound between their fin- gers, till they were deprived of the use of ^eir hands.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Nay, the * Wodrow, vol. ill. p. 385. — ^From this anecdote, which 18 one of many of a similar kind, the reader is left to judge whether there be any truth in the asser- tion, that Claverhouse *' would scorn to rob any private individual of a farthing !**— So says a modern writer.
Digitized by Google 1682.3 THE COVENANTERS. 171 pitiful persecutor again surprised the house of the widow at midnight, under pretence of Bearc&ing for h^ son, and hefore leaving it, compelled her to give him twenty mer...iu — "nearly all her living I* But the inhumanity of the oppressors was not confined to deeds of extortion ; they add- ^d the most rev6lting cruelty to avarice, and acted a part which woidd puzzle the most iui* veterate Tory writer to vindicate. In the pa- rish of Kilbride, for example, Captain Inglis having seized three countrymen, who refused to swear the oath which he was {leased to dictate, deliberately tortured them by means of lighted matches bound between their fin- gers, till they were deprived of the use of ^eir hands.
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