South-West Fife and the Scottish Revolution : The Presbytery of Dunfermline, 1633-1652
Bensen, Richard A.1978
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"Following years of seeming complacency, the people of South West Fife joined the revolutionary movement of 1637-1640. Their enthusiasm then was as typical as was their growing disquietude during 1641-1645. They supported intervention in England in 1643, but doubts and confusion mounted as defeats and natural disasters ensued. New wars with England came in 1648 and 1650, bringing increased suffering with them. The often misunderstood Battle of Inverkeithing effectively finished the war and the revolutionary period at once, and only a legacy of vicious theological controversy and political impotence remained, in Scotland as well as in South-West Fife. Nevertheless, the community's life went on."
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Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh, 1978
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348p : ill., tables, appendices.
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Index
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5249
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F/GEN
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English
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3443723