The Society of Jesus – the Jesuits Don Inigo Lopez de Recalde, the Ignatius Loyola of history, was youngest son of a Spanish Grandee and born in the Castle of Loyola in 1491. Growing up in a relative luxury at the Spanish Court he sought adventure and glory as a soldier, and did so […]
An Act for the Attainder of divers Protestants in Ireland. Introduced in the Irish Parliament, Dublin 12 May 1689. Extracted from the Annals of Derry, Robert Simpson, Londonderry, Hempton,1847. Reprinted North West Books, Limavady ,1987. This act repealed the acts of settlement and all grants, patents and certificates as applied to the persons named. They […]
Proclamation issued by William the Third when in Belfast 19 June 1690 requiring good conduct from members of his forces. Our chief intention and design in this our Royal Expedition being to reduce our Kingdom of Ireland to such a state that all who behave themselves as becomes dutiful and loyal subjects may enjoy their […]
The Inquisition. The Inquisition was founded in 1216 for the purpose of returning the lapsed believer to the Church of Rome, if not by reason then by force. It became an approved institution of the Church under Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241) It never came into the four Kingdoms that then made up Great Britain, although […]
Early Presbyterians in America – and the Declaration of Independence. An unnamed minister from Ulster is recorded as working his ministry in Maryland in 1668. The Rev William Trail of Lifford went to Maryland in 1682 and officiated there for several years before returning and becoming minister at Borthwick, Scotland. The Rev John Makie, from […]
Some facts about the Siege of Londonderry – 18 April 1689 to 1 August 1689 The Siege proper lasted for 105 days but the citizens and the garrison were pent up by the presence of first the Earl of Antrim`s forces from 7 December 1688, and then by King James` forces, to 31 July 1689 […]
A view of the state of Ireland and the Plantation of Ireland. [ W.E.H.Lecky, History of Ireland Vol 1. p 25-27 (1916).] The point to be understood is that land tenure was the deep seated and root cause of discontent; religion was a supplementary irritation which is emotive and sometimes taken out of context as […]
The Plantation of Ulster. Lord Deputy Chichester to the Earl of Salisbury 3rd October 1610 For the instrumentes of the Plantation, I meane the Brittysh Undertakers, those from England are for the most part plaine countrie gentlemen, who maye promise much, but geve unto us small assurance or hope of perforrninge what to a worke […]
Kirkcudbright to Newton Stewart From Kirkcudbright the road does not conveniently run along the shore line until after the Gatehouse of Fleet, although there are several small roads that lead off if you want to wander around the bye ways. The agricultural revolution in the eighteenth century, included the attacks on newly erected fences by […]
Holland`s role – a refuge for the persecuted. Extract from Exiles of the Covenant, W.D. Carslaw, Gardner, Paisley,1908, p95-98. As early as the reign of David I., who died in 1153, a considerable number of the industrious and enterprising inhabitants of the Netherlands had already settled in Scotland and carried on trade in its eastern […]
The Treaty of Berwick, 27 February 1560. [ Extract from The History of the Kirk of Scotland, David Calderwood, Ed Thomson. 1842. Vol 1 p573-578 For larger image, click on thumbnail .]
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. ” To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion . or empire, above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is a subversion […]
The Murder of Cardinal David Beaton or Bethune. David Beaton or Bethune was born at Markinch in Fife in 1494, the third son of seven to John Beaton of Balfour in Fife and Isabel Moneypenny, daughter of Dasvid Moneypenny of Pitmilly. He studied at St Andrews and matriculated 26 October 1511, after which he went […]