Search
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and 12 miles in extreme breadth. During the wars of the Covenanters, it shared largely in the hostilities of that …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Marquess of Montrose, and a detachment of the army of the Covenanters, commanded by Hurry, and consisting of about 4000 … conflict, obtained a decisive victory. About 800 of the Covenanters fell, and a considerable number of the forces of … General Claverhouse, at Drumclog, by a congregation of Covenanters, who had assembled there for public worship, and, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Aberdeen, where he encountered and defeated an army of the Covenanters; and the remains of his encampment on a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… encounters which took place, during the time of the Covenanters, between the inhabitants and the soldiery who … former was erected with a view to honour the memory of the covenanters imprisoned on the Bass rock, and the expense was …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… history for the battle fought there, in 1679, between the Covenanters and the Duke of Monmouth; and at a little …
A New History of London
… to his majesty in his expedition against the Scots covenanters; who had then taken arms to oppose the violent … for his measures were no less opposed there than here, the covenanters having even taken arms against the surplice and …