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Podcast: The Semper Reformata Podcast
Episode: The Great Siege
Description: The Great SiegeThe second Saturday in August is ‘Derry Day’ - we meet to commemorate an historical event - a siege. Actually, a very important event in our cultural and political history. The siege occurred in 1689, around a year after William of Orange had landed at Torbay, and ‘the glorious revolution’ was effectively ending almost a century of rule by the Stuart dynasty, a period that had brought a great burden of suffering upon those who by conscience would not conform to Roman ritual or rule of the church by state appointed bishops.The people i...