King or Covenant? : Living in Troubled Times

This volume consists of 13 biographical studies of people from the middle ranks of society, derived from memoirs, diaries or letters, showing how their lives were affected by Scotland's mid-17th-century wars, and re-constructing their characters.New perspectives on major events emerge from a study of their impact on these individuals, for personal experience is central to history, and these are lives from "the troubles" - one of the key periods of Scottish history.