Archive for the 'Fife' Category
Beyond Orkney’s Fatal Shore: The Wreck of The Croune, 10 December 1679 #History #Scotland
• December 10, 2016 • 7 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 • 15 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
The ‘Majestick-Like’ Colossus of Fife in 1674
• August 5, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in Adam Masterson of Grange, Bo'ness, Covenanters, Devon Common, Fife, Gibbites, John Drysdale, John Welwood, Lomond Hills, Scotland, Scottish History, Sweet Singers, Wonders
Tags: Covenanters, Early modern history, Fife, History, Scotland, Scottish History, women's history
The Fourth Convention of the Society people in Edinburgh, 11 August, 1682
• April 23, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in 04 convention, 1682, Alexander Gordon of Earlstoun, Alexander Gordon of Kilsture, Alexander Peden, Covenanters, Darmead, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Fife, Glasgow, James Renwick, James Russell, John Henderson (Kilbrackmont), Leeuwarden, Patrick Grant, Perthshire, Robert Hamilton, Russellites, Scotland, Scottish History, Thomas Douglas
Tags: Charles II, Covenanters, Early modern history, Edinburgh, History, Leeuwarden, Scotland
Christian Fyfe Declares that Charles II ‘Deserved to be Murdered’
• July 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1682, Christian Fyfe, Covenanters, David Hackston of Rathillet, Donald Cargill, Edinburgh, Fife, Richard Cameron, Scotland, Scottish History
Tags: Charles II, Covenanters, Edinburgh, History, Scotland, Scottish History, women, women's history
Jardine's Book of Martyrs 