These men were democratic in their ecclesiastical views, and stout protestors against Patronage, which has always been the bugbear of the sects in Scotland.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp
A groan went up from the protestors, and swelled into a wordless, furious howl.
"Super Man and the Bug Out"
Cory Doctorow
Despite the warning of Fox that the remedy now proposed was worse than the evil which it sought to avert; despite the pleas of Grey and Sheridan against indecent haste in hurrying on this arbitrary measure, it was forced through every stage in the Commons at that single sitting; finally, at half-past three in the morning, the numbers of the Whig protestors sank to 13, while the Ministerialists still mustered 108 strong.
"William Pitt and the Great War"
John Holland Rose