Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Spaewife, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles
Thus was the venom of dissension from the beginning instilled as it were into the blood of the princes of the royal house of Stuart, arid thus did their progenitor, while intendin g justice and atonement, work out against his own offspring a machination of prerogative fraught with the seeds of irrem ediable enmi ty. Is it therefore to be wondered, that the righteous Heavens, with an unparalleled con. Stancy of displeasure, have continued, through so long a succession of bloody and funereal events, to manifest their' judgment on the doomed and guilty race?
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