… Church and kept holding illegal conventicles. The capital city was witnessing trials and executions. Indeed, since the Reformation, the Scots had been attached to their religious autonomy and could hardly bear the idea that their Church was …
… The societies and clubs would sometimes adopt a political commitment. The Easy Club (1712), the Society for Endeavouring Reformation of Manners (1699), the Pretenders Club (1715) and the Rankenian Club (1717) for example, were considered as …
… whose ‘brains are in a perpetual source-tub’. 15 The orthodox narrative for the early eighteenth century is one of a ‘reformation of manners’, manifested in rising politeness, moderation and sobriety, particularly associated with the …