Excerpt from Modern Chivalry, Vol. 2: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'regan, His Servant
What, man! Said Duncan, ha ye never heard 0' the Solemn League and Covenant. I have heard, said the Captain, of many Leagues and Covenants. In the time A Henry IV. In France there was what was Called the League. The family of Guise was at the head of this, and opposed to the Protestants.' It is probably a branch of this that has come over into Scotland, and kept up the name, after having been broken by that heroic Prince, and afterwards taken away altogether, by his conversion to the mother 'church, and peaceahle possession of the kingdom.
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