Complete and unabridged, with 33 full-page plates by Joseph Highmore, William Hogarth and David Wilkie. The Killing Time in Galloway: Covenanters hiding in the moss-hags with a price on their heads, Claverhouse's dragoons quartering the moors, and a boy of a great house who must choose which side of his own family to betray. Crockett was a Free Church minister who gave up the pulpit when his novels sold, and wrote some sixty books; he knew this ground and these graves personally, and the persecution here is not decorative. Thirty-three plates, from Bartholomew Dandridge to Godfried Schalcken, picture letters read and kept in secret, the quiet traffic of a persecuted people.