The Covenanter's Prison - Waiting For The Ghost Hunters 2
The following inscription is from a plaque erected at Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh, and unveiled on 30 November 2007 by John Campbell, Treasurer of the Scottish Covenanter Memorials Association:
THE COVENANTERS' PRISON
Behind these gates lies part of the southern section of Greyfriars Kirkyard which was used in 1679 as a prison for over one thousand supporters of the National Covenant who had been defeated by Government forces at the battle of Bothwell Brig on 22 June. For over four months these men were held here without any shelter, each man being allowed 4 ounces of bread a day. Kindly citizens were sometimes able to give them more food.
Some of the prisoners died here, some were tried and executed for treason, some escaped, and some were freed after signing a bond of loyalty to the Crown. All those who were persecuted and died for their support of the National Covenant in the reigns of Charles II and James VII are commemorated by the Martyrs' Memorial on the north-eastern wall of the kirkyard. The Covenant, which was first signed in Greyfriars Kirk in 1638, promised to defend Presbyterianism from intervention by the Crown.
In November 1679 the remaining 257 men, who had been sentenced to transportation overseas, were taken to Leith and placed on board a ship bound for the American colonies; nearly all were drowned when this ship was wrecked in the Orkney islands (where there is a monument in their
memory), but 48 of the prisoners survived.
The section of the kirkyard used to imprison the Covenanters lay outside the existing south wall, and included the area now covered by buildings on Forrest Row. The area behind the gate was laid out for burials in 1705 and contains many fine monuments, but these did not exist at the time of the prison.
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Elke 14/12/2014 20:06
I love it - dark and sinister with an interesting information about this sad place. Best wishes, Elkeyªmpo 13/12/2014 20:23
Great atmosphere.Bravo.
LIBOMEDIA 30/11/2014 19:01
mystic atmosphere !Michèle FLEURY 28/11/2014 6:57
Un N&B plein de mystère et e fantômes, c'est sûr, l'atmosphère créée avec cette grille et cette vision sombre est formidable, j'adore! Un lieu de ténèbres très propice à l'image, au roman, au film!! Félicitations! Amitiés, MichèleElvina Benoist-Audiau 24/11/2014 21:28
Fantastic thriller mood !!! very great shot on the gate - Greetings, ElviJan-Henrik Sellin 23/11/2014 14:43
Schön dokumentiert, interessanter Text!Viele Grüße, Jan
alexander stefanatos 23/11/2014 11:51
A very beautiful picture, dull, morbid almost ghostly,capturing very well the spirit of the place. The Stuart period is indeed one not to be remembered with much pleasure by the English and Scott historians, Lawson, but on the other hand this Cattolic/Protestanticoposition led in horrible religious wars and massacres in many other parts of Europe also.
" Let him who is without sin cast the first stone..." applies here as well as in your previous picture, Lawson
regards alexander
s. sabine krause 23/11/2014 11:17
for once i am thankful for the lock and chain, even though i must say it looks awfully small and ineffectual… but maybe it keeps the ficklest and most sluggish of the ghosts from transcending the boundary of the gate to reach out for me and haunt me… ; ) what a thrillingly gruesome site! a glance down the padlocked area makes the lot of the outdoor prisoners and history itself come spine-chillingly alive!! greetings, sabine.TSB 23/11/2014 10:23
1*Harold Thompson 23/11/2014 9:45
Dark area:-)) Harold
Mark Billiau. 23/11/2014 8:49
A spot that must have been close to hell in the past !Mark
Sue Thompson 23/11/2014 8:42
Sinister................Adele D. Oliver 23/11/2014 3:48
a sinister looking area, the gates forbidding - and very intriguing your story and well captured image and mood !!!greetings, Adele
Antonio Hijano 23/11/2014 1:52
Perfecta ambientación de este terrible lugar, la edición es muy buena.Saludos
Dennis Maloney 23/11/2014 0:51
...great image of this place of incarceration, death and ghostly spirits, well presented in the monochrome tonal ranges, with a mood of torture and despair....Greetings,
...den