A Scots Earl in Covenanting Times

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Lord Lome's foreign travels. ? Marriage. ? Becomes Colonel of Royal Guards. ? Battle of Dunbar. ? Lord Lome retires to Inveraray. ? Father and son take different sides in politics. It was during Lome's college days that the series of great disasters occurred which not only lowered the prestige...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Lord Lome's foreign travels. ? Marriage. ? Becomes Colonel of Royal Guards. ? Battle of Dunbar. ? Lord Lome retires to Inveraray. ? Father and son take different sides in politics. It was during Lome's college days that the series of great disasters occurred which not only lowered the prestige of his father and clan and seriously impoverished them, but also weakened the Covenanting cause. Our readers will remember that after peace had been secured in Scotland by the King's complete submission to the Covenanting party, that country remained for some time an inactive spectator of the Civil War in England, and that it only departed from this attitude in consequence of a piteous appeal from the Parliamentary party, which was in dire need of the brotherly aid which it sought from Scotland. After the Solemn League and Covenant had been subscribed by the English Houses of Parliament and the Westminster Assembly of Divines, a powerful army under the Earl of Leven crossed the border and contributed largely to the victory won by the Parliamentary forces at Marston Moor. The Marquess of Argyll had accompanied the army of invasion but was suddenly recalled to Scotland to act as Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Estates and to suppress a Royalist rising under the Marquess of Huntly, his brother-in-law. He had scarcely succeeded in this enterprise when Montrose began his victorious career. In the course of a year theFOREIGN TRAVEL 19 latter fought and won six great battles in which he shattered the armies of the Covenanters, only to be himself overwhelmed by the troops which they were compelled to recall from England. The loss inflicted upon the Marquess of Argyll by these victories of Montrose was both deep and humiliating. At an early stage in the contest he res...