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  • Tags: Chapbook Genre: biography

s0098b48_History.pdf
A short history and biography of Sir James Douglas, also known as the Good Lord James and as the Black Douglas, focusing especially on his many exploits against the English in the First War of Scottish Independence, as well as his journey to bring…

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A short biography and history of William Wallace, one of Scotland’s national heroes, describing his role in the First War of Scottish Independence. This chapbook is one of a series of histories and biographies of notable Scottish figures which have…

s0018b30_Madrid.pdf
Nicolas Pedrosa, a barber-surgeon, male-midwife, and secret Jew from Madrid, is pulled into the intrigues of war, politics, and the Spanish Inquisition when he has an altercation with his mule and some friars on the way to deliver the baby of the…

s0024Kb33_Life.pdf
This is a short history of the life of Mary Queen of Scots, from birth to death. According to a list of other publications on the back, this was one of a series of books printed for juvenile readers, with many accompanying illustrations. The story is…

s0070b22_Mansie.pdf
Written in the first person, this chapbook briefly tells the story of Mansie Waunch’s life in Dalkeith. Brief vignettes offer amusing anecdotes from Mansie’s life, including his first festival, his first love, meeting and marrying his wife, attending…

s0042b27_History of Prince.pdf
A short history and biography of the life and death of Bonnie Prince Charlie, focusing especially on the events of the Second Jacobite Rising. This chapbook is one of a series of histories and biographies of notable Scottish figures which have been…

Portrait on title-page of a man wearing a wig and dressed in a coat with a lace collar
A short history and biography of the life and death John Welch, a Presbyterian minister in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapbook focuses especially on his reputed powers of divination and other supernatural demonstrations, including…
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