In exile in Holland, Hugh Herriot recalls the exploits of his youth as a follower of Bonnie Dundee who tried to win back Scotland for the Catholic King James and whose death during a victorious battle proved to be a final blow for the Jacobite cause.
In Scotland in 1679, Angus McKethe and his family consider leaving their homeland because of the religious persecution they and others have had to endure at the hands of King Charles II.
Contains selections from the diary of sixteenth-century English diarist and civil servant Samuel Pepys, written between 1660 and 1669, a period that encompassed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague, and the burning of London.
