[P. 232.] calls backing. 1 “Henry IV,” ii, 4, 165.
Mr. MacAdam, John Loudon (1756-1836).
Sixty years since. The sub-title of “Waverley” was “’Tis Sixty Years Since.”
Wickliff, John (c. 1320-1384), an important English forerunner of the Protestant Reformation, the first translator of the Bible into English.
Luther, Martin (1483-1546), led the first successful revolt against the authority of the Catholic Church.
Hampden, John (c. 1595-1643), an English patriot who by his refusal to pay ship-money precipitated the rebellion against Charles I which ended in the beheading of that monarch.
Sidney, Algernon (1622-1683), an English patriot who fought on the side of Parliament against Charles I, and who, in the reign of Charles II, was tried for treason by Jeffreys, the hanging judge, and condemned to execution without proof. Sidney is the author of “Discourses Concerning Government” in which he vindicates the right of resistance to the misrule of kings.
Somers, John (1651-1716), took an important part in bringing about the bloodless Revolution which drove James II from England in 1688.
[P. 233.] Red Reiver, in “The Black Dwarf.”
Claverhouse, in “Old Mortality.”