Excerpt from Ralph Gemmell, or the Banks of the Irvine: A Tale of the Scottish Covenanters But of all the masters Of this house, none ever proved himself so careless Of religion, or so blindly devoted to a prince, as the father of Ralph. In those troublous and cruel times, when the church of the land was driven to the wilderness; and when its scattered mem bers hanged their harps on the willows of Scotland's wildest streams, zealously did he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.