"This series of powerful sketches of some seventeeth-century Scottish Covenanters is Alexander Smellie's best-known work.
 
The portraits are exquisite studies of those who made a covenant 'with their Heavenly King, Jesus', and were willing to lose even life itself in resisting all attempts by king and state to make them conform. This record of the deep passion and piety of the Covenanters ought to be compulsory reading for Christians of all ages." 
 
-John O'London's