Archive for the 'Peebles' Category
The Gypsies’ Field of Blood at Romanno, 1677
• March 15, 2015 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1677, Covenanters, Edinburgh, Grassmarket, Newlands parish, Peebles, Peeblesshire, Tweeddale
Tags: Body Snatchers, Edinburgh, executions, Gypsies, History, Peebles, Romanno Bridge, Scotland, Travellers
Renwick’s Preachings at Cauldstane Slap and Cairnhill
• February 9, 2011 • 6 CommentsPosted in 1684, Apologetical Declaration Against Intelligencers, Bathgate, Biggar, Black Loch, Blackbarony, Boghall, Borders, Britain, British History, Cairnhill, Calder House, Cauldstane Slap, Charles II, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Dawyck, Dead Wife's Grave, Dungavel, East Calder, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, European history, General Thomas Dalyell, Greenock, Hew Kennedy, History, James Renwick, James VII & II, John Flint, John Hay 2nd earl of Tweeddale, John Veitch of Dawyck, Lanarkshire, Linton parish, Livingston, Mid Calder, Mid Calder parish, Patrick Walker, Peebles, Peeblesshire, Pentland Hills, Scotland, Scottish History, Scottish parliament, Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony, Sir William Murray of Stanhope, St Germain, Stirling, Tweeddale, Tweedsmuir parish, Walter Sandilands 6th lord Torphichen, West Calder, West Calder parish, West Linton, William Burnett, Wolf Hole Craig
Tags: Covenanters, Scottish History
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