The Pentland Rising of 1666: Executed at Ayr on 27 December #History #Scotland

Five days after six were executed in Edinburgh for the Pentland Rising, seven Covenanters were hanged and beheaded in Ayr. All of those who were executed were from Galloway. At around the same time, General Tam Dalyell shot David Finlay at Newmilns. Seven* were executed at Ayr on 27 December, 1666 A gravestone was erected…

The Pentland Rising of 1666: Executed at Ayr on 27 December

Captain Thomas Douglas Jardine's Book of Martyrs

The Architect of the Massacre of Glencoe Banishes Covenanters to

Football with a Head, Newmilns Tower and the Killing Times

The Three Covenanters Hanged at Wigtown in 1685

Scotland Beautiful & Historic

28th November 1666, The Battle of Rullion Green and the End of the

The Covenanters' Prison, Edinburgh, 1679 #History #Scotland

The Pentland Rising of 1666: Executed at Irvine on 31 December

Scotland Beautiful & Historic

Dalry parish Jardine's Book of Martyrs

David Farrie: From Ayr & Irongray to the Abolitionists

The Covenanter's Grave in Bathgate #History #Scotland

The Covenanter uprising crushed in the Pentland Hills

Daniel Defoe: An Intelligencer in Edinburgh #History #Scotland