Pater Noster, Our Father. Or, The Lord's Prayer explained. The Sense thereof, and Duties therein, from Scripture, History, and Farthers, Methodically cleared, and Succinctly opened, at Edinburgh,.

William Annand (1633-1689), was the son of a royalist minister. His father, after reading a controversial service-book in Glasgow in 1637, had to flee Scotland. Following his father’s royalist leanings, Annand studied at University College, Oxford from 1651 and attended clandestine Episcopal sermons. Ordained in 1656 by Bishop Thomas Fulwar in Ireland, Annand became a preacher in Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire, especially noted for his impactful sermons.

“Having lived to see episcopacy restored in Scotland, he died just when it was being abolished, on 13 June 1689, the very day that Edinburgh Castle was surrendered to the convention of Scottish estates by the Duke of Gordon, who had held it for James II. On his deathbed Annand said that ‘he never thought to have outlived the church of Scotland, yet hoped others should live to see it restored” (DNB).

All of William Annand's publications are rare.