Archive for the 'Stirling' Category

The British Army of the Killing Times in the Winter of 1685 #History #Scotland

• September 23, 2018 • 1 Comment

Posted in 1685, 1686, Adam Blair (Carberry), Andrew Bruce of Earlshall, Ayr, Ayr parish, Ayrshire, Bathgate, Bathgate parish, Captain 'Major' George Winram, Captain John Inglis, Captain John Wedderburn of Gosford, Captain Strachan, Captain William Cleland, Captain William Douglas, Cornet James Dundas, Cornet James Innes, Cornet James Naismith, Cornet John Baillie, Cornet Peter Inglis, Cornet William Graham, Covenanters, Cumnock, Cumnock parish, David Graham, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, earl of Airlie, earl of Balcarres, Earlshaugh, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Evandale parish, Galloway, General Thomas Dalyell, Glasgow, Glenkens, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, His Majesty's Regiment of Foot Guards, His Majesty's Troop of Life Guards, John Graham of Claverhouse, Kells parish, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock parish, King's Regiment of Horse, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanark, Lanark parish, Lanarkshire, Lieutenant Alexander Bruce, Lieutenant Crichton, Lieutenant James Stewart, Lieutenant Lewis Lauder, Lieutenant Livingston, Lieutenant Murray, Lieutenant Thomas Winram, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel James Douglas, Linlithgowshire, Lord Ross, Loudoun parish, Lt General William Drummond, Mar's Regiment of Foot, Mauchline, Mauchline parish, Maybole, Maybole parish, Newmilns, Newmilns Tower, Old Castle of Cumnock, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Strathaven, Teviotdale, Wigtown, Wigtown parish, Wigtownshire
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The Lull before the Storm? A letter of Daniel Defoe an English Spy in 1706 #History #Scotland

• May 7, 2016 • 1 Comment

Posted in Covenanters, Daniel Defoe, John Erskine of Carnock, Militia, Scotland, Scottish History, Stirling, Stirlingshire
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A Covenanter Against the Glorious Revolution and Union of 1707: Hugh Dickie in Kilmarnock

• August 28, 2013 • 2 Comments

Posted in Alexander Shields, Ayrshire, Carrick, Covenanters, Craigdow, Crookedholm, Donald Cargill, Hugh Dickie, James Renwick, John Stevenson (Camregan), John Welsh, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock parish, Kirkoswald parish, Richard Cameron, Scotland, Scottish History, Stirling, Thomas Linning, William Boyd
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Shot at Strathaven: The Mystery of William Paterson the Executed Cambusnethan Covenanter

• January 25, 2012 • 9 Comments

Posted in 1685, 1832, Banishment, Cambusnethan parish, Captain-Lt John Bell, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Covenanters' Oak, Dalzell House, Dalziel parish, Darmead, Dennis Gillies, Evandale parish, Flanders (1684), Garrion Gill, George Barclay, George Hill, George Jackson, George Scot of Pitlochie, Jamaica, James Forrest (elder), James Forrest (younger), James Gourlay, James Steuart of Goodtrees, John Barrie, John Collin, John Lauder, John Nisbet 1, John Oliphant, Kirkhill, Lanarkshire, Leeuwarden, Lochwinnoch parish, London, Mar's Regiment of Foot, Margaret Forrest, Murrays/Muirhouse, New Jersey, Patrick Walker, Perth Amboy, Reform Movement, Renfrewshire, Robert Gourlay, Robert Hamilton, Robert Langlands, Robert Paterson (d.1680), Rye House Plots, Scotland, Scottish History, Stirling, Stonehouse parish, Strathaven, Thomas Jackson (Eastwood), Thomas Steuart of Coltness, USA, William Brackel, William Paterson, William Vilant
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‘A most obstinate and malicious person’: Robert Garnock, the Covenanters and the Croune of London

• December 8, 2011 • 4 Comments

Posted 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
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Search and Destroy: The Mauchline Martyrs of 1685

• September 1, 2011 • 20 Comments

Posted in 1685, Abjuration oath, Argyll Rising, Auchter Muir, Ayrshire, Bathgate parish, Carluke, Carluke parish, Colonel James Douglas, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Cromwell Lockhart of Lee, Daniel Defoe, Dragoons, Edinburghshire, Falkirk, Galston, George Douglas earl of Dumbarton, Highlanders, James II, John Brounen, John Browning, John Bryce (d.1685), John Campbell of Mid Wellwood, John Campbell of Over Welwood, John Graham of Claverhouse, John Smith (Muirkirk), Killing Times, Lanark, Lanarkshire, Linlithgowshire, Livingston parish, London, Lt General William Drummond, Martyrs, Mauchline, Mauchline parish, Mid Calder parish, Midwellwood, Muiravonside parish, Muirkirk parish, Peeblesshire, Peter Gillies, Priesthill, Russia, Scotland, Scottish History, Shotts parish, Skirling, Skirling parish, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Thomas Richard, Thomas Young (d.1685), West Calder parish, Westquarter, William Campbell of Over Welwood, William Campbell of Wellwood, William Douglas duke of Queensberry, William Fiddison (d.1685), William of Orange
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Renwick’s Preachings at Cauldstane Slap and Cairnhill

• February 9, 2011 • 6 Comments

Posted 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, Neidpath Castle, 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, Yester House
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