The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the birth of the Reformation in Scotland, and its establishment in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church and the Royal House of Stuart. It is a sad history of the sufferings of the Scottish people in their struggle for freedom of worship and freedom of speech. Lives were sacrificed at the stake, on the gallows, on the battlefield and on the open hillsides, believers being shot down in the act of worship. Others escaped martyrdom, but still suffered persecution. This book consists of brief biographies of thirteen of this noble army of ministers and covenanters.
