MONTROSE, C V Wedgewood, 172 pgs.
Consider me as a Christian in relation to the justice of the quarrel as a subject in relation to my royal master's command, and as your neighbor in relation to the many of you whose lives I have preserved in battle. Let me be judged by the laws of God, the laws of nations and nature, and the laws of this land.So appealed James Graham, the 1st Marquess of Montrose, at his trial in Edinburgh in May 1650 after years of fearless struggle against the anti-royalist forces of Civil War Scotland. For pure heroism and nobility it would be difficult to match the `Great Marquess', described by Thomas Carlyle as the noblest of the Cavaliers. He seems to many to belong with the knights of epic chivalry, inspiring his contemporaries to remarkable feats of valour and leaving behind him a legend which, fostered by fellow countrymen such as Sir Walter Scott and John Buchan, has endured to this day.
This new, fully illustrated edition of C.V. Wedgwood's classic study catches the fire of that legend in recounting Montrose's story. Relying upon the facts, Dame Wedgwood shows her hero against the cultured background of his youth in St Andrews; carries him through the epic marches across the mountains and glens of the Highlands and on to his terrible end at Edinburgh, which he met, like all his trials, with fortitude.This remarkable story of a great romantic hero separates the facts from the legend and yet still manages to capture brilliantly all the excitement of the tale, of gallantry and heroism, of conspiracy and intrigue, of massacres and tragedy, set against the magnificent scenery of seventeenth-century Scotland.
Phoenix Mill, 1995 r/p of 1952 ed, Sutton Publ, first UK edition thus, w/dj, 7x10, VG/VG cond, 172 pp, numerous illus & maps, index.
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