Presbyterian Church

Helen escapes to a convent, where she is discovered by Lord Raspberry and delivered into his hands, along with Father Guerdo who has helped Lord Raspberry in his search. While the three are waiting at...

EW sets out here is to defend Anglican clergymen of Presbyterian sympathies, who were currently under attack from more more extreme reformers, and in general to defend the need for a highly educated body of...

She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII , which established the Church of England (Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox in 1559, which established the...

In this retrospective work AH expressed horror at the excesses of the Scots Presbyterians . She also gives here the dates of birth and death of her children, details about her financial trouble with her...

The point of EW 's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place.

Against a background of Charles I 's continuing war against Scotland (despite the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in September 1643) in the attempt to impose Episcopacy in place of Presbyterianism, KC argues...

The protagonist of this first novel is a selfless figure whose chief action is to supply the place of a mother to a younger relative, protect her against her father, and preside over her courtship...

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

KC published with her initials a broadside entitled Good Counsell, to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government.

The fuller title is An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity, Joyned in Community with Samuel Ansley. EB says she made a proclamation to these people on the twentieth day of the eighth...

John Welsh was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent...

The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent and specifically Presbyterianism , but returns to the Church of England , saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year...

She writes evocatively here of her childhood in India, and closes on instances of the uncanny in Wales and some spiritual experiences of her own which for her contradict absolutely the real existence of...

The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...

This novel combines comic realism of tone with a sensational plot-line. The dissenting clergyman protagonist stands at the centre of events which include kidnapping, attempted murder, and an attack of brain fever. MO used...