Excerpt from Richard Cameron: Famous Scots, Series
I undertook the present task from an interest in the Presbyterian rebellion, but soon found that the Lion of the Covenant was to the historian a lion in his den. I could hardly get at him, and it seemed impossible to catch more than a glimpse of him. In fact, the materials for a biography of Richard Cameron were so scanty that I grew alarmed, wondering how I was to make out my tale of bricks with so little straw. At length, from the registers of the University of St Andrews, and the Wodrow mss. In the Advocates' Library, I got some pick ings. I have been able to correct a few dates and fill up a gap or two in the meagre record. The hero is hardly vivid withal but if the delineation does not amount to a portrait, there is, I trust, such a rending of the shadows as leaves the recognisable figure of a man. I have dispensed with foot notes they would be of no value to the general reader, for whom the work is intended.
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