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PEEBLES: KINGS, COVENANT AND CONSEQUENCES

Ronald Ireland

Ronald Ireland is a retired chartered surveyor. He has been interested in Scottish history since his youth and has lived in Peebles for forty-seven years. He is chairman of the Peebles Civic Society and a member of Historic Scotland. He is the
author of The Bloody Covenant,  published in 2010 by The History Press.

The talk will cover some of the historical information about Peebles and Tweeddale discovered during researches for the book, The Bloody Covenant, focussing on the religious order before and after the Reformation of 1560, the signing of the National Covenant and the Bishop's Wars during the first half of the Seventeenth Century and the Covenanting period known as The Killing Times which followed.