The power of Protestant religious principle in producing a national spirit of defence, exemplified in a diary of the siege of London-Derry. . Written by the Rev. George Walker, D.D. who commanded the garrison during the siege. Now published, as a useful lesson to the present times.
George Walker (1645/6 - 1690)
Category
Books
Date
1757
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3109399
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, x, 73, [1] p.; . 8vo (in 4s). Marked: 10/6, in a probably nineteenth-century hand. Provenance: Inscribed: "Robert Jones - Fortland rebound in 1831". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf on marbled paper over boards. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt: "Walker's Siege of Derry"
Makers and roles
George Walker (1645/6 - 1690) John Brown (1715-1766)