Mark Jardine
Historian, Scriptwriter & Blogger on Scottish History & Covenanters. Worked on BBC Scotland’s A history of Scotland with Neil Oliver, The Last Explorers (again, with Neil Oliver) & Addicted to Pleasure with Brian Cox. Bafta Award Winner.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Scotland History Covenanters Scottish History 1685 Covenanter Sites Ayrshire Lanarkshire Galloway Edinburgh Kirkcudbrightshire Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire Alexander Peden James Renwick Early modern history Donald Cargill Wigtownshire 1684 Nithsdale
James Renwick’s Letter to Jean Hamilton in Leeuwarden, 20 June 1684 #History #Scotland
20 June 2022
Jean Hamilton was the sister of Robert Hamilton and sister-in-law of the imprisoned Alexander Gordon of Earlstoun. She was in regular correspondence with James Renwick. Renwick wrote...
Letter of James Renwick to Robert Hamilton in Leeuwarden, 29 March 1684. #History #Scotland
29 March 2022
Nine days after the thirteenth convention at Panbreck, James Renwick wrote to Robert Hamilton in Leeuwarden.Renwick notes that George Hill, the president of the convention, had given...
25 November 2021
On 14 November, 1683, James Renwick, who had recently returned to Scotland and begun field preaching, wrote to Robert Hamilton, in Leeuwarden. As ever in their private correspondence,...
13 November 2021
On 13 November, 1683, James Renwick wrote to a small prayer society he had met in Leeuwarden in the United Provinces before he returned to Scotland. It was probably sent with letter...