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 HISTORY OF THE

Scottist Martyrs.

When the doctrines of the Reformation were first introduced into Scotland, the Catholic clergy, in the true spirit of bigotry and intolerance peculiar to their religion, determined to arrest their progress, by adopting a system of cruel and unrelenting persecution against all who propagated or favoured them. Their inhumanity, however, had a direct contrary effect to that which was expected or intended. In this, as in all cases of excessive or unmerited severity, sympathy was excited for the sufferers; and, by a natural consequence, presentiment feeling of detestation became to be entertained for their persecutors, And thus the