John Brown of Priesthill
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John Brown, also known as the Christian Carrier, was a Protestant Covenanter from Priesthill farm, a few miles from Muirkirk in Ayrshire, Scotland. He became a Presbyterian martyr in 1685.
The Martyrdom of John Brown of Priesthill, 1685
The remote Martyr's Grave of John Brown
Monument at the Martyrs Grave
Covenanters, George Harvey. Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum; Study for The Covenanters' Preaching
Major-General John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee was a Scottish army officer. A Tory and Episcopalian, he was responsible for policing southwest Scotland to suppress religious unrest and
John Brown of Priesthill
…during The Killing Time of the 1680s, the allegations of brutality make this event one of the most controversial illustrations of the character of John Graham of Claverhouse, afterwards Viscount Dundee. In order to protect the Presbyterian polity and Calvinist doctrine of the Church of Scotland, the pre-Restoration government of Scotland signed the…
Portrait by the circle of Sir Peter Lely, c. 1675
c. 1675 portrait of Dundee
Conventicle field meeting held by Presbyterian dissidents; Claverhouse was employed in their suppression
Drumclog, 1 June 1679; Claverhouse was unexpectedly defeated by a Covenanter force