Why read A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes?

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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1844]. This book is printed in black &…

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1 author picked A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Kelsey Jackson Williams

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Surviving in a single manuscript, printed once in 1844, and forgotten almost instantly, the Breiffe Narration is, without doubt, one of the masterpieces of Scottish prose. It is the autobiography, partial in more ways than one, of Father Gilbert Blackhall (d. 1671), a soldier turned Catholic priest from Aberdeenshire who was the confessor to three leading noblewomen during the tumultuous period of the civil wars. Blackhall evades robbers, rescues his noble charges from dastardly plots, and travels halfway across Europe in a first-person narrative written in a rich, broad Scots and full of vivid dialogue (presumably more invented than remembered,…

From Kelsey's list on The best books with antidotes to Outlander's version of Scottish history.