List of Scottish Covenanters – Index
The following pages
are about the Covenanters – the persecuted
`faithful remnant` of the Presbyterian Church. Their story is an integral part of the
larger saga of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland between 1560 – 1690,
when the Church of Scotland ` was by law established`. Within the
articles are cross references and links to related subjects; to pages giving
specific detail; and, explanation of a topic.
For convenience ordained
ministers are shown as Rev, although by custom and practice they used
Mr or Maister [Master] indicating both that they were Presbyterian
ministers and had a university degree. See Sir
priest and other titles.
An extensive bibliography offers a wide range of further reading. Enjoy.
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The
Scottish Reformation – the early years. Index. |
The Wife of Beith. An allegory from a chap
book. |
The young Kirk. |
Who were the Covenanters ? An introductory note. |
The Kirk and its impact on the people. |
The Presbytery of Paisley
and the pursuit of Papists. |
Rev. Andro Knox, Papist catcher. |
James VI , King
of Scotland 1567 – 1603. |
James VI and James I
of Great Britain 1603-1625. |
The episcopal honeymoon. |
A period of relative tranquillity,
1560-1638. |
Banishment.
see also Slavery. |
Court of High Commission. |
The Five Articles of Perth,
25 August 1618. |
Rev. Robert Blair. |
Rev.John Livingstone |
The Covenanters. A
hardening of attitudes. |
Charles I . 1625 -30 Jan 1649, |
Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll. |
Rev. Alexander Henderson. |
Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston |
Laud`s Liturgy – the Book of Common Prayer for use in Scotland. |
St Giles Cathedral, Greyfriars Kirk, and
the Covenant. |
Signatories to the Covenant in Borgue and Minigaff Parishes, Galloway. |
Citation and excommunication of the Bishops,1638. |
The Scottish House of Commons is
born. |
The
Bishops Wars 1639-1640 |
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
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The execution of Montrose |
The
Solemn League and Covenant, 1643 |
The surrender of Charles I, 1646 |
The Engagement 1647. |
Rev. Samuel Rutherford. |
Rev.James Guthrie
of Stirling. and Jean Ramsay, Mrs James Guthrie. |
Rev William Guthrie of Fenwick. |
The Regicides of King Charles I. |
Negotiations at Breda, 1650. |
Charles
II King of Scotland ( February 1649 -September 1651) |
Proclamation of Cromwell as Lord Protector,4 May 1654. |
Cromwell in Scotland. |
General Monk and Archbishop Sharp. |
The Restoration of Charles II: an overview. |
Local taxation, an emerging fact of life. |
A new Scottish Parliament approved 1660. |
The “Drunken Parliament” |
Events leading up to the `outing` of ministers. |
Outed Ministers, Curates, Conventicles. and the
Blink. |
Rev. John Blackadder |
The East Nisbet conventicle,1670.
Blackadder`s account. |
The Bond –
to refrain from conventicles etc. |
Rev. Alexander Peden. |
Ministers of Galloway who were outed. |
Scottish Bishops 1661- ca 1863. |
The Act of Uniformity,1662 [ England] and the
Clarendon Code. |
Court
of High Commission. |
Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock. |
James
Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews- turncoat and persecutor. |
Isobel Sharp and servants` account of the assassination; Proclamation of the murderers 20 Sep 1679; and Doctors` Certificate of injuries. |
Commentary re: evidence that
Sharp`s murder was a premeditated act. |
A letter to Donald Cargill, 8 May 1679. |
Sharp`s funeral procession and mausoleum. |
John, Earl of Middleton, inter alia, a soldier |
Sir James Turner, inter alia, a soldier. |
Biggar
Covenanter Museum |
The Torwood excommunications |
Portraits of ministers in the Fasti
Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
Prisons and prisoners. |
Covenanter Prisons |
The Bass Rock |
St Baldred and the Bass Rock. Extract from The Scotichronicon |
John Spreul, apothecary; prisoner on the Bass Rock. |
Blackness Castle |
Dunnottar Castle |
Dunnottar Prisoners (The Black Book of Kincardineshire.) |
Extracts from the records of Edinburgh Tolbooth – Dunnottar prisoners, and transportations 1685. |
Prisoners returned from Burntisland to Edinburgh Tolbooth 20 May 1685. |
Prisoners released from Edinburgh Tolbooth 28 May 1685 (returned from Burntisland). |
Transfer of prisoners from Leith Tb. to Edinburgh Tb. October 1685 |
Transportations, 1665, 1666, 1680, |
Slavery – general. (see also Banishment) |
Transportations to America 1685 |
Greyfriars and the Covenanters` Prison |
Tolbooths |
Tolbooth Regulations 1579 & Prisons Act 1597, |
Tolbooth escapes (Fountainhalls Historical Notes) |
The Heart of Midlothian |
The
Cameronians and persecution. |
Sir George ” Bluidy ” MacKenzie of
Rosehaugh, Lord Advocate. |
Rev. Richard Cameron |
Rev.Donald Cargill |
David Hackston. |
The Cameronians & the Sanquhar Declaration. |
The Queensferry Papers. |
Sanquhar Declaration text |
Proclamation against the Cameronians. |
Rev.James Renwick |
Renwick`s Lecture on Psalm XXIII. |
A day in the life of James Renwick |
Renwick`s
Admonitory Vindication, 28 October 1684. |
Proclamation 9 Dec 1686,
“Wanted, Dead or Alive.“ |
The Justiciary
Circuit Courts. |
Circuit Courts |
Commissions
for Circuit Courts (1684) |
Instructions to Circuit
Courts (1684) |
The Stirling Bond 1684. |
The Glasgow Court and treatment
of heritors of Lochwinnoch. |
Abjuration Oath 25 November 1684 |
The sense in which a Covenanter refused to say “God Save the King” |
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll; rebellion 1685. |
The Killing Time |
Executions. |
The Martyrs` Monument, Greyfriars. |
Catholic resurgence under James II, 1685 -1688. |
Rev. John MacMillan of Balmaghie. |
Death bed of MacMillan and monument at
Dalserf. |
Holland`s
role in the Reformation. |
James
NOT James VII of Scotland. |
Confrontations. |
Covenanter battles |
They died for their beliefs – numbers. |
Kilsyth. |
Philiphaugh. |
Preston. |
Dunbar. |
Worcester. |
Mauchline Moor |
Rullion Green |
Proclamation of Rebels 4 December 1666. |
Drumclog |
The Fiery Cross in Moray, 1679. |
Evidence of the inquiry about the Fiery Cross. |
Bothwell Brig |
Ayrs Moss |
Tales of the Covenanters. |
James Ure of Shergarton. |
Covenanter Ships. |
“Eaglewing” – John Livingstones account. |
Passengers and prisoners on the “Henry & Francis”, 1685. |
Covenanter sites and monuments. |
“Old Mortality”
– Robert Paterson (1713-1801) |
Seventeenth century burials.
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Gravestones and memorials . |
Tradesmen and other gravestone emblems.
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In praise and memory of Covenanters. |
The Covenanter Banner. |
Pass under the Rod. |
The Cameronian`s Dream. |
Peden at the Grave of Cameron. |
A poem about the Whigs and Rullion Green. |
A Covenanter poem about the Battle of Bothwell
Brig. |
A Covenanter`s Death |
Martyrs |
Sorrow Healed |
The Martyrdom of John Brown |
The Wigton Martyrs. |
The Covenanters Vow. |
Mountain Sanctuary. |
A Childrens Covenant. |
Miscellaneous |
My Books
about the Covenanters: “As God is my Witness”; “A Layman`s Guide to the
Scottish Reformation”, “The Sojjers are comin`” (CD pdf
file),” Testimony of the
Covenant”. |
About the Reformation – “The Nail in the Door”
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Covenanter CDs |
Old Scottish money. |
Bibliographies: Scottish Presbyterians.
Irish Presbyterians. |
The Scottish Covenanter Memorials Association. |
Time Line 1600 – 1840 |
19/01/2012 |