Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Martyrs' Monument, St Andrews, which commemorates Patrick Hamilton, Henry Forrest, George Wishart and Walter Milne Two people were executed under heresy laws during the reign of James I (1406–1437). Protestants were then executed ...
Pages in category "Protestant martyrs of Scotland" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Protestant martyrs of Scotland (36 P) S. Scottish Catholic martyrs (11 P) Scottish people martyred elsewhere (2 P)
The Nithsdale Martyrs Cross at Dalgarnock near Thirnhill. Grierson of Lag, known as 'Cruel Lag', had been active in requiring those living in the area to take the Abjuration Oath [4] and Captain Bruce brought Edward and Alexander before him, pressing for an assize to be arranged to try them. [3] 'Monsterous Lag' would have none of it, although ...
Covenanters' Graves Tortures shown in panel from A Cloud of Witnesses, first published in 1714. [1]The Wigtown Martyrs or Solway Martyrs, Margaret Maclauchlan and Margaret Wilson, were Scottish Covenanters who were executed by Scottish Episcopalians on 11 May, 1685 in Wigtown, Scotland, for refusing to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring James VII of Scotland as head of the church.
The Martyrs' Monument, St Andrews, which commemorates Milne and three other martyrs: Patrick Hamilton, Henry Forrest, and George Wishart. Walter Milne (died April 1558), also recorded as Mill or Myln, was the last Protestant martyr to be burned in Scotland before the Scottish Reformation changed the country from Catholic to Presbyterian.
The remote Martyr's Grave of John Brown Monument at the Martyrs Grave. John Brown (1627–1685), also known as the Christian Carrier, was a Protestant Covenanter from Priesthill farm, a few miles from Muirkirk in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Gibson was the son of Lord George Gibson II (+1590) of Goldingstones, Fife, Scotland, a judge of the High Court of Scotland, who was a "free baron" under charter of King James IV of Scotland. His great-uncle and namesake, Bishop William Gibson, Dean of Restalrig , had been one of the leading Catholic clergymen in Scotland prior to the Scottish ...