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The Discovery of Bog Bodies and the Killing of Mary McClymont in 1684 #History #Scotland

• August 19, 2018 • 3 Comments

Posted in 1684, Ayrshire, Cairnsmore of Carsphairn, Camregan, Carsphairn parish, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Craigdow, Dailly parish, Dalmellington parish, Galloway, Gavin McClymont (Carsphairn), Glenkens, James Renwick, John Graham of Claverhouse, John Stevenson (Camregan), Killoup Wood, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mary McClymont, Robert Cannon of Mardrogat, Scotland, Scottish History, William Gordon of Dundeugh, William MacMillan (Marscalloch), William Smith (Carsphairn)
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Blue on Blue: The Covenanter who Shot a Covenanter #History #Scotland

• December 31, 2017 • Leave a Comment

Posted in 1682, 1685, Alexander Ferguson of Kilkerran, Ayrshire, Covenanters, Dailly parish, Eldington, John Semple (d.1685), Scotland, Scottish History
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‘Under the Highest Peril’: The Rabbling of Ayrshire in 1689 #History #Scotland

• August 29, 2017 • 1 Comment

Posted in 1689, Ayr parish, Ayrshire, Barr parish, Carrick, Covenanters, Dailly parish, Dalmellington parish, Maybole parish, Muirkirk parish, Riccarton parish, Scotland, Scottish History, Straiton parish, Tarbolton parish
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Beyond Orkney’s Fatal Shore: The Wreck of The Croune, 10 December 1679 #History #Scotland

• December 10, 2016 • 4 Comments

Posted in 1679, Auchinleck parish, Ayrshire, Balmaclellan parish, Balmaghie parish, Banishment, Barony parish, Barr parish, Bathgate parish, Berwickshire, Bo'ness parish, Borders, Borgue parish, Bothwell parish, Bowden parish, Calder parish, Cambusnethan parish, Carmichael parish, Carnwath parish, Carrick, Carstairs parish, Castletown parish, Cavers parish, Ceres parish, Closeburn parish, Colmonell parish, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Craigie parish, Cranston parish, Croune of London (1679), Cumnock parish, Dailly parish, Dalmellington parish, Dalry parish, Dreghorn parish, Drummond parish, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, East Calder parish, Eastwood parish, Edinburghshire, Evandale parish, Falkirk parish, Fenwick parish, Fife, Galashiels parish, Galloway, Galston parish, Gargunnock parish, Girthon parish, Girvan parish, Glasgow, Glassford parish, Glencairn parish, Glenkens, Govan parish, Haddingtonshire, Hobkirk parish, Irongray parish, Kelso parish, Kelton parish, Kilbride parish, Kilconquhar parish, Kilmarnock parish, Kincardine parish, Kinross, Kinross parish, Kippen parish, Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkliston parish, Kirkmabreck parish, Kirkmichael parish (Ayrshire), Kirkoswald parish, Lanarkshire, Larbert & Dunipace parish, Largo parish, Leith, Lesmahagow parish, Linlithgow parish, Linlithgowshire, Livingston parish, Lochrutton parish, Loudoun parish, Mauchline parish, Maybole parish, Melrose parish, Merse, Mid Calder parish, Muiravonside parish, Muirkirk parish, Neilston parish, New Monkland parish, Nithsdale, Ochiltree parish, Old Monkland parish, Orkney, Orwell parish, Paisley parish, Penninghame parish, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish History, Selkirkshire, Shotts parish, Sorn parish, Southdean parish, St Ninians parish, Stewarton parish, Stirlingshire, Stow parish, Straiton parish, Strathmiglo parish, Temple parish, Torphichen parish, West Calder parish, Wigtownshire
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The Battle of Muirdykes, 1685: Fountainhall’s Version #History #Scotland

• December 6, 2015 • 2 Comments

Posted in 1685, Adam Blair (Carberry), Argyll Rising, Ayrshire, Captain William Cleland, Carrick, Cornet James Dundas, Covenanters, Dailly parish, earl of Argyll, George Douglas earl of Dumbarton, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, John Cochran of Ochiltree, John Hay of Park, John Mclorgan (d.1685), John Whiteford (Blairquhan), Lochwinnoch parish, Lord Ross, Militia, Patrick Hume of Polwarth, Renfrewshire, William Wallace of Craigie
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The Stream’s Secret: Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Lost Covenanters’ Cave #History #Scotland

• November 7, 2015 • 3 Comments

Posted in Ayrshire, Carrick, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Dailly parish, George Maclure of Benan, Scotland, Scottish History
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Daniel Defoe on the Killing Times of 1685

• September 18, 2015 • 7 Comments

Posted in -------- Auchenleck (d.1685), 1685, Andrew McRoberts (d.1685), Auchencloy, Ayrshire, Barr parish, Borgue parish, Captain Thomas Douglas, Carrick, Colmonell parish, Colonel James Douglas, Cornet James Dundas, Covenanters, Cromwell Lockhart of Lee, Cumnock parish, Dailly parish, Daniel Defoe, David Dun (d.1685), David Halliday in Mayfield (d.1685), Dumfriesshire, Eaglesham parish, Edward McKean (d.1685), Evandale parish, Fenwick parish, Gabriel Thomson (d.1685), Galloway, George Woodburn, Girthon parish, Glencairn parish, Highlanders, James Bennoch (d.1685), James Clement (d.1685), James McMichael (d.1684), John Bell of Whiteside (d.1685), John Brounen, John Bryce (d.1685), John Fergushill, John Gibson (Ingleston), John Graham of Claverhouse, John Jamieson (d.1685), John Mclorgan (d.1685), John Semple (d.1685), John Smith (Muirkirk), Joseph Wilson (d.1685), Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Lesmahagow parish, Lieutenant Lewis Lauder, Lieutenant-Colonel Buchan, Matthew McIlwraith (d.1685), Mauchline parish, Muirkirk parish, Nithsdale, Peter Gemmel, Peter Gillies, Renfrewshire, Robert Grierson of Lag, Robert Lennox (d.1685), Robert Lockhart, Robert M'Whae (d.1685), Robert Mitchell (d.1685), Scotland, Scottish History, Simon Paterson (d.1685), Tarbolton parish, Thomas Young (d.1685), Tongland parish, William Adam, William Fiddison (d.1685), William Paterson, William Shillilaw (d.1685)
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