covenantry

Updated: May 4, 2025

Religion has always been a burning question in Scotland, and about Annie's time the flames raged with peculiar ferocity. Her father, Sir Robert Laurie, was a bitter enemy of the Covenantry, and his name finds a somewhat unenviable fame in mortuary verses of this sort cut upon gravestones: "Douglas of Stenhouse, Laurie of Maxwelton, Caused Count Baillie give me martyrdom."

- McClure's Magazine December, 1895