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Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston. Some people seem to be born to follow a particular profession and so it was for Archibald Johnston born to a merchant father, a burgess of Edinburgh, in March 1611. His grandfather Sir Thomas Craig was a advocate of note and the author of a book on Feudal Law. An […]
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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, H Scott (1915) The Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, is a record of the succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation (1560). Not all the Registers have survived the years. The ministers often covered more than one parish kirk and during their early years moved around the country, covering vacancies, and […]
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The Covenanters Prison W Moir Bryce. A Privy Council meeting of 22 July 1679 issued a warrant to Gen. Dalziel to release the listed prisoners who had given a bond ofloyalty and for their good behaviour. Name Residence George ARNOT Arlarie Andrew DANNIELL Codziam Alexander BARCLAY Blair James GRIEVE Mahill Robert BIRD Links of […]
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In this letter Cranmer writes of the official divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon and the coronation of Henry’s next Queen, Anne Boleyn. He speaks of the legal meeting in which Catherine was informed that the King rejected the Pope’s authority over the marriage and of the obvious pregnancy of Anne at her […]
The Bass Rock The Bass Rock lies about two miles off the North Berwick coast although it looks closer, and is opposite the ancient castle of Tantallon. Today it is a well known sea bird sanctuary with a large colony of about 100,000 gannets, but it has a much darker past as a singularly desolate […]
Covenanter Prisons. The Covenanter story is very much about imprisonment whether of the many ministers cast into prison for their beliefs and resistance to episcopacy; or the people who took up armed resistance and their life in their hands to attend conventicles. There was also the invidious open imprisonment of banishment to remote places within […]
The Covenanters, Who Were They ? A snapshot view. The history and the changes that occurred in Scotland – and subsequently in Ireland – through the 17th and early 18th centuries are highly charged by one word: Covenanters. So who were they and why were they so influential? It is easy to say that they […]
The Rye House Plot 1683 Monmouth The Ryehouse Plot was a scheme in 1683 with the object of assassinating King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York (later James II ) in order to secure the succession of the Duke of Monmouth, an illegitimate son of Charles II and Lucy Walter. Born in […]
Trade memorials and gravestones. Throughout the 17th century there was increasing competition between the burgh merchants and the trade guilds. The merchants for a long time held the positions of authority and power, in part due to the fact that they also had money to spend and lend. The merchants of the City of London […]
The Lanthorn of Light. Articles contained in an English Book, entitled, ‘The Lanthorn of Light” printed and published by John Clayton (Claydon, or Clayborn) in 1415. The book was deemed heretical and burnt while John Clayton himself was declared a heretic by diktat of Henry Chichesley, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was committed to the secular […]
Burning at the stake Both Catholics and Protestants had their martyrs but execution by burning at the stake was a punishment normally inflicted for heresy and witchcraft. The method was first approved for use against heretics by the Synod of Verona in 1184 and subsequently confirmed by the Lateran Council of 1215 and the Synod […]
Title: Defender of the Faith. Extract : Acts & Monuments John Foxe, Ed Rev. Geo. Townsend. Vol IV p 294 fn. This might well be titled `good works rewarded` – a script for a 1920`s black and white silent film. It is of note that as late as 1521, the date of the title, the […]
The Papal Bull 23 March 1534. The Effect in English of Pope Clement’s Sentence definitive, against the Divorce of Queen Katherine. Translation from Foxes Monuments, Ed Rev Geo. Townsend,(1846) vol 5 p 658. The effect of this sentence is as much as to mean in English, that ” pope Clement VII. with the consent of […]
Military Orders. During the eleventh century Europe saw a resurgence of religious ardour led by the preaching of Peter the Hermit. This translated itself into chivalry and taking up of arms to secure the Holy Sepulchre from the hands of the Moslems. The consequence was the formation of the monastic orders of the Trinitarians; Knights […]