Claverhouse eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 235 pages of information about Claverhouse.

Claverhouse eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 235 pages of information about Claverhouse.

  Ballechin, Stewart of, 194
    letter to, from James, 215 note

  Belhaven, Lord, 200, 211

  Blair Castle, 194, 195, 201, 214
    Church, 214, 215

  Bothwell Bridge, battle of, 83-6

  Brown, John, execution of, 116-22

  Bruce, Andrew, of Earlshall, 55, 91

  Buchan, Colonel, 107, 108, 109, 145

  Burnet, Bishop, on Claverhouse, 4, 151 note

  Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewan, 169, 170, 171, 179, 181, 185, 198, 202,
      203, 210
    memoirs of, 5 note
    Allan, 207-8
    Richard, 91

  Cameronians, the, 91

  Cannon, Colonel, joins Claverhouse with Irishmen, 198

  Cargill, Rev. Donald, 78, 79, 91

  Charles the Second, signs the Covenant, 24
    crowned in Scotland, 24
    his opinion of Lauderdale’s administration, 42
    acquits Claverhouse of malversation, 91

  Charles the Second appoints Claverhouse to a regiment of cavalry, 97
    his goodwill to Claverhouse, 100 and note
    settles Claverhouse in possession of Dudhope, 101

  Claverhouse, birth of, 1
    family and education, 2-7
    supposed to have served in French army, 8, 9
    gallant action at Seneff, 12, 13
    resigns commission in Dutch service, 15
    story of his reasons for resigning, 15, 16 note
    applies to Montrose for employment, 44
    receives lieutenant’s commission, 45
    portrait of, 46, 47
    refuses to interfere illegally with Covenanters, 48
    appointed Deputy-Sheriff of Dumfriesshire, 55
    at Drumclog, 70
    at Glasgow, 72, 73
    at Bothwell Bridge, 85, 86
    accused of malversation, 90, 91 note
    appointed Sheriff of Wigtownshire, 92
    his policy towards the Covenanters, 92-3, 135 and note
    receives command of cavalry regiment, 97
    his quarrel with the Dalrymples, 95-7
    his visit to England, 97-100
    made a Privy-Councillor, 100
    obtains estate of Dudhope, 101
    his marriage, 101-5
    merciful conduct to prisoners, 109
    examination into charges against, 111-36
    in disgrace, 125-6
    his character, 134-5
    his quarrel with Queensberry, 139-42
    second visit to England, 142
    Provost of Dundee and Major-General, 143
    marches into England, 145
    quartered in London, 146
    joins James at Salisbury, 146
    created Viscount of Dundee, 146
    his advice to James, 147
    marches to Reading, 147
    receives a message from William at Watford, 148
    attends Scottish Council in London, 148
    waits on James at Whitehall for the last time, 149
    negotiations with William, 151
    returns to Edinburgh, 151
    plot to assassinate him, 158
    leaves Edinburgh, 160
    his interview with the Duke of Gordon, 160

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