Wigtown Martyrs
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The Wigtown Martyrs or Solway Martyrs, Margaret Maclauchlan and
Monuments to the 'Wigtown Martyrs' exist in Wigtown. During "
There are two graves to the women in the local churchyard and on nearby Windy Hill there is a memorial obelisk. There is also a stone at the point where they died.[7]
Controversy
Historian Mark Napier's Memorials of Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, 1859–62, included letters of Claverhouse and other documents not previously available in print. The publication stirred up acrimonious controversy related to the two Covenanter women, because Napier raised doubts as to whether the two women's execution ever took place at all. He replied to his critics in the Case for the Crown in re the Wigtown Martyrs proved to be Myths versus Wodrow and Lord Macaulay, Patrick the Pedlar and Principal Tulloch, 1863; and in History Rescued, in Reply to History Vindicated (by the Rev. Archibald Stewart), 1870.
References
- ^ Thomson, John Henderson (1871). A cloud of witnesses, for the royal prerogatives of Jesus Christ : being the last speeches and testimonies of those who have suffered for the truth in Scotland, since the year 1680. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier. pp. 435–442. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ "Scotland's drowned martyrs, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway". The Guardian. June 8, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
- ^ Charles Rogers (1871). Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland. pp. 351–.
- ^ MacPherson, Hector (1947). The Wigtown Martyrs in Records of the Scottish Church History Society (Vol 18 ed.). Scottish Church History Society. pp. 166–184. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Smellie, Alexander (1908). Men of the Covenant (2nd ed.). London: Andrew Melrose. pp. 179–193. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Galloway and the Covenanters. p. 409 Wodrow's narrative.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Napier, Mark". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.