Archive for the 'East Kilbride' Category
‘The Troops Complain Mightily’: Claverhouse’s Sweep of the Hills after the Ambuscade at Auchengilloch in 1684
• July 16, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 14 convention, 1684, Airdsmoss, Andrew Bruce of Earlshall, Auchinleck parish, Ayrshire, Boghead (Auchinleck), Captain John Inglis, Captain Strachan, Cumnock, Cumnock parish, Dalmellington, Dumfries, East Kilbride, Glenkens, Hawkhill, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, His Majesty's Regiment of Foot Guards, John Cochran of Ochiltree, John Graham of Claverhouse, King's Regiment of Horse, Lieutenant-Colonel Buchan, Lord Ross, Paisley, Strathaven, William Cochran (Ochiltree)
Tags: Airds Moss, Covenanters, Cumnock, Early modern history, History, Scotland, Scottish History
The Banishment of Andrew Young in Eaglesham to Barbados in 1687
• January 24, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1687, Andrew Young (Threepland), Barbados, Eaglesham parish, East Kilbride, John Young (Threepland), Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Threepland
Tags: Barbados, Caribbean History, Covenanters, Eaglesham, Early modern history, History, Scottish History, Seventeenth Century
‘A most obstinate and malicious person’: Robert Garnock, the Covenanters and the Croune of London
• December 8, 2011 • 5 CommentsPosted in 1678, 1679, 1681, Andrew Sword (d.1679), Archibald Riddell, Ayrshire, Banishment, Barbados, Borgue parish, Covenanters, Croune of London (1679), David Hackston of Rathillet, Deerness, earl of Linlithgow, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Tolbooth, Fife, Fintry parish, Hatton House, James Russell, James Wood (d.1679), John Balfour of Kinloch, John Clyde (d.1679), John Waddel (d.1679), Kilbride parish, Kilmarnock parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Lord Hatton, Loudoun parish, Maybole parish, Orkney, Richard Cameron, Robert Garnock, Shotts parish, Sirling parish, St Andrews parish, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Swine Knowe, Thomas Brown (d.1679), William Dingwall
Tags: British History, Covenanters, Fintry, History, Martyrdom, Scotland, Scottish History, Stirling
The Devil and Duncan Grant
• September 10, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1689, British History, Duncan Grant, earl of Airlie, East Kilbride, John Wilson (Highflat), Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish History, The Devil
Tags: British History, Covenanters, Devil, East Kilbride, History, Satan, Scotland, Scottish History, The Devil
The Eaglesham Martyrs
• November 18, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1684, 1685, Abjuration oath, Alexander Shields, Apologetical Declaration Against Intelligencers, Archibald MacAulay of Ardincaple, Ardincaple Castle, Ayrshire, boots, British History, Canongate Tolbooth, Carrot, Colonel James Douglas, Cornet Peter Inglis, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Cowplaw, Dragoons, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Dunwan Burn, Eaglesham, Eaglesham parish, East Kilbride, Eastwood parish, Edinburgh, European history, Evandale parish, Gabriel Thomson (d.1684), Gabriel Thomson (d.1685), Gallowlee, Glasgow, Glassford parish, Hairmyres, Highlanders, History, Holehall, James Nicol, James Smith, John Campbell of Mid Wellwood, John Semple, John Ure, John Watt, Kilbride parish, Killing Times, Kilmarnock, Lanarkshire, Leith, Loudoun parish, martyrdom, Martyrs, Melowther, Muirkirk, Muirkirk parish, National Library of Scotland, Newlands, Patrick Walker, Peebles, Renfrewshire, Rhu parish, Robert Lockhart, Robert Thom, Robert Wodrow, Scotland, Scottish History, Sparrow Hill, Strathaven, thumbikins, Torture, Upper Wellwood, William Campbell, William Campbell of Over Welwood, William Young
Tags: Covenanters, Eaglesham, East Kilbride, Hillwalking, History, Martyrs, Renfrewshire, Scotland, Scottish History
Jardine's Book of Martyrs 