Archive for the 'Edinburghshire' Category
Where was ‘The Deer Slunk’ where the Wild Sweet Singers Hid in 1681? #History #Scotland
• December 25, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted in Cambusnethan parish, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Darmead, Darmead Monument, David Jamie, Donald Cargill, Edinburghshire, Gibbites, John Young (Gibbite), Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish History, Sweet Singers, The Deer Slunk, Walter Ker, West Calder parish
Tags: Covenanters, Donald Cargill, History, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish History, Sweet Singers
The British Army of the Killing Times in the Winter of 1685 #History #Scotland
• September 23, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted 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
Tags: British Army, Early modern history, Edinburgh, Glasgow, History, Military History, Scotland, Scottish Army, Scottish History
A Republican Martyr Executed in Edinburgh in 1685 #History #Scotland
• December 19, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1685, Covenanters, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Mercat Cross, Edinburghshire, James II, Richard Rumbold (d.1685), Rye House Plots, Scotland, Scottish History
Tags: British History, Covenanters, History, Scotland, Scottish History
The Cotmuir Folk in the Canongate Tolbooth #History #Scotland
• October 29, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Canongate Tolbooth, Cotmuir Folk, Covenanters, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, Scottish History
Tags: Canongate Tolbooth, Cotmuir Folk, Covenanters, Edinburgh, History, Scotland, Scottish History
Four Robbers Hanged at the Gallowlee near Leith #History #Scotland
• December 17, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1686, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Gallowlee, Leith
Tags: Duddingston, Edinburgh, Hangings, History, Humbie, Leith, Niddrie, Scotland, Scottish History, true crime
Beyond Orkney’s Fatal Shore: The Wreck of The Croune, 10 December 1679 #History #Scotland
• December 10, 2016 • 5 CommentsPosted 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
Tags: British History, Covenanters, Croune of London (1679), History, Orkney, Scotland, Scottish History, Shipwrecks
The Covenanters’ Prison, Edinburgh, 1679 #History #Scotland
• December 5, 2016 • 12 CommentsPosted in 1679, Alexander Balfour (Gilston), Andrew Newbigging, Andrew Sword (d.1679), Andrew Thomson (Sauchie), Andrew Wallace (Irongray), Ayrshire, Balmaghie parish, Borders, Borgue parish, Bowden parish, Captain Strachan, Ceres parish, Covenanters, Cranston parish, Croune of London (1679), David Cunningham, David Somerville, Drummond parish, East Calder parish, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Tolbooth, Edinburghshire, Fife, Galashiels parish, Galloway, George Lord Ross, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, Inverkeithing parish, Irongray parish, James Balfour (Gilston), James Corsan (Kirkcudbright), James Gray, James Lileburn (Kinross), James Waddell (Monklands), James Wood (d.1679), John Blackadder, John Clyde (d.1679), John Govan, John Kid (d.1679), John King (d.1679), John Kirk (Ceres), John McBraickney, John Scott (Ettrick Forest), John Thomson (Bothwellmuir), John Waddel (d.1679), Kelso parish, Kilmarnock parish, Kincardine parish, Kinross, Kinross parish, Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Linlithgowshire, Livingston parish, Loudoun parish, Militia, Old Monkland parish, Orwell parish, Patrick Keir, Patrick Wilson, Perthshire, Robert Boig (Newbigging), Robert Garnock, Robert Kirk (Burleigh), Robert McGill (Galashiels), Robert Miller (Pinclo), Robert Russell, Robert Young (Galasheils), Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish History, Selkirkshire, St Ninians parish, Stirlingshire, Stow parish, Strathmiglo parish, Thomas Brown (d.1679), Thomas Crichton, Thomas Miller (Ceres), Thomas Pringle, Thomas Williamson (Over Cranstoun), Walter McKechnie, West Port Gate, William Brown, William Grindlay, William Hardie, William Henderson, William Younger
Tags: British History, Covenanters, Covenanters' Prison, Edinburgh, George Heriot's School, History, Sandy Bells, Scotland, Scottish History
