The Blue Flag Or the Covenanters Who Contended for Christs Crown And Covenan
The Blue Flag Or the Covenanters Who Contended for Christs Crown And Covenan
Robert P Robert Pollok Kerr
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" With this declaration, June 30, 1685, he went to join his martyred father. Shortly afterwards, Earl of Argyle. BLOOD, BLOOD ! 99 more than twenty of Argyle's clan were hanged at Inverness. Sir James Graham, ordinarily called "Claverhouse, " now rose to the summit of his awful fame, to fill up the measure of his iniquities, and make for himself a name to be covered with shame and disgrace forever. He had been rewarded for his unrelenting cruelties to the Covenanters by being made a member of t...he Privy Council at Edinburgh, and the southwestern counties of Dumfriesshire and Galloway were assigned to him as his own special domain. These beautiful regions he proceeded to turn into fields of death, crimsoned with the blood of their best inhabitants. His purpose was to kill all of the Covenanters, to "make, with the sword, a solitude, and call it peace. " He employed spies to find out and report the hiding places of the doomecf people. Sometimes he w^ould drive all the inhabitants of a particular neighborhood into one place, surround them w^ith soldiers, and command them to swear allegiance to King James and abjure the Cove- .
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