Children’s Books
Barrett, Ethel, John Welch: the man who couldn’t be stopped (Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 2008).
Bond, Douglas, Duncan’s war (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2002).
Bond, Douglas, King’s arrow (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2003).
Bond, Douglas, Rebel’s keep (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2004).
Hunter, J. H., How sleep the brave! A novel of 17th century Scotland (1955, reprinted Inheritance Publications: Alberta, 2008).
Marston, Hope Irvin, Against the tide: the valour of Margaret Wilson (Phillipsburg: NJ: P&R, 2007)
Thirty years among South Sea cannibals: The Story of John G. Paton . Also available here
Historical Novels
Crockett, S. R., The Men of the Moss Hags (London, 1895)
Hunter, J. H., How sleep the brave! A novel of 17th century Scotland (1955, reprinted Inheritance Publications: Alberta, 2008).
Watson, Robert, Prophet of the Covenant (Glasgow, 1983).
Biographies: Reformers
Howie, John, The Scots Worthies ed. W. H. Carslaw (1870 edn, reprinted, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2001)
M’Crie, Thomas, The Life of John Knox (Edinburgh, 1811).
M’Crie, Thomas, The Life of Andrew Melville (Edinburgh, 1819)
Biographies: Covenanters
Blair, Robert The life of Mr Robert Blair, ed. Thomas M’Crie (Edinburgh, 1848) [Google Books].
Carslaw, W. H., The life and letters of James Renwick (London, 1893)
Grant, Maurice, No King but Christ: the story of Donald Cargill (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 1988).
Grant, Maurice, The Lion of the Covenant: the story of Richard Cameron (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 1997).
Houston, Thomas, The life of James Renwick (1865, reprinted Edinburgh: , 1987)
Howie, John, The Scots Worthies ed. W. H. Carslaw (1870 edn, reprinted, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2001)
Johnston, John C., Alexander Peden: the prophet of the covenant (1902)
Kerr, James, The Covenants and the Covenanters: Covenants, Sermons and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation, with illustrations (Edinburgh, 1895)
McFeeters, J. C., Sketches of the Covenanters
Reid, James, Memoirs of the lives and writings of those eminent divines who convened in the famous Assembly at Westminister, in the seventeenth century (2 vols, Paisley, 1811-15): Volume 1 Volume 2
Shields, Alexander, The life and death of that eminently pious, free and faithful minister and martyr of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Renwick (Edinburgh, 1724).
Some remarkable passages of the life and death of Mr. Alexander Peden (with illustrations and new additions, Belfast, 2009).
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 ed. J. H. Thomson (Edinburgh and London, 1871? [1714]).
General History: Reformation
Fox, John, Acts and Monuments (Foxe’s Book of Martyrs) (1563, many modern editions)
Knox, John, The Works of John Knox ed. David Laing (Edinburgh: Wodrow Society, 6 vols (1846–64)].
Knox, John, History of the Reformation in Scotland ed. W. C. Dickinson (2 vols, 1949).
General History: Covenanter
Anderson, James, The ladies of the Covenant (Glasgow, 1851)
Burnet, Gilbert, A history of his own time (6 vols, Oxford, 2nd edn, 1833).
Couper, W. J., The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland: its congregations, ministers and students (Edinburgh, 1925).
Cowan, Ian B., The Scottish Covenanters, 1660-1688 (London: Victor Gollancz 1976).
Douglas, J. D., Light in the North: the story of the Scottish Covenanters (Exeter: Paternoster, 1964)
First International Convention of Reformed Presbyterian Churches (Glasgow, 1896)
Hewison, J. K., The Covenanters (2 vols, 2nd edn, Glasgow, 1913): Volume 1 Volume 2
Hutchison, Matthew, The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland: its origin and history, 1680-1876 (Paisley, 1893)
Johnston, J. C., Treasury of the Scottish Covenant (Edinburgh, 1887)
Love, Dane, Scottish Covenanter Stories: tales from the Killing Times (2nd edn, Glasgow: Neil Wilson, 2005)
McBride, Scripture politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish radicals in the late eighteenth century (Oxford, 1998).
Moore, E. N., Our Covenant Heritage: The Covenanters’ struggle for unity in truth (Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 2000).
Reformed Presbyterian Testimony, Part II, Historical (Belfast, 1939).
Rutherford, Samuel, The letters of Samuel Rutherford (1664, reprinted, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1976).
Sermons in times of persecution in Scotland ed. James Kerr (Old edition online here)
Shields, Alexander, A hind let loose (Utrecht, 1687)
Smellie, Alexander, Men of the Covenant (London and Edinburgh, 1903)
Stevenson, David, The Covenanters: The National Covenant and Scotland (Edinburgh: The Saltire Society, 1988)
Stevenson, David, The Scottish Revolution, 1637-44 (2nd edn, Edinburgh, 2003)
Stevenson, David, Revolution and Counter Revolution, 1644-51 (2nd Edition, Edinburgh, 2003).
Stewart, James and Stirling, James, Naphtali: or, the wrestlings of the Church of Scotland for the kingdom of Christ (1667)
Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland: Historical and Doctrinal (Glasgow, 1866 [1837, 1839])
Vos, J. G., The Scottish Covenanters (Edinburgh: Blue Banner Productions, 1998 [1940]).
Walker, Patrick, Six saints of the Covenant, ed. D. H. Fleming (2 vols, London, 1901): Volume 1 | Volume 2]
Wodrow, Robert, History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, ed. Robert Burns (4 vols, Glasgow, 1828-30): Volume 1 | Volume 2] | Volume 3 | Volume 4
The Covenanters in Ireland
Gribben, Crawford, The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church (Darlington, 2003).
Hamilton, Thomas, History of Presbyterianism in Ireland (Belfast, 1992 [1887]).
Holmes, Andrew R., The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Loughridge, Adam, The Covenanters in Ireland (Belfast, 1984).
Reid, J. S., History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, ed. W. D. Killen (3 vols, 3rd edn, Belfast, 1867): Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Sites and Tours
Gibson, James, Inscriptions on the tombstones and monuments erected in memory of the Covenanters, with historical introduction and notes (Glasgow, n.d.)
Thomson, J. H., The Martyr Graves of Scotland ed. Matthew Hutchison (Edinburgh and London, 1903?)
Articles
Armstrong, Robert, ‘Ireland’s Puritan Revolution? The Emergence of Ulster Presbyterianism Reconsidered’ in English Historical Review, cxxi (2006), pp 1048-74.
Piper, John, “You Will Be Eaten by Cannibals!” Courage in the cause of world missions: Lessons from the Life of John G. Paton (audio and article)
Silversides, David, What the Solemn League and Covenant means for today
Stewart, Kenneth, The Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Revolution Settlement
Stewart, Kenneth, The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the British Constitution and Scottish Independence
Symington, Andrew, ‘The Reformed Presbyterian Church’ in Cyclopaedia of Religious Denominations (London, 1853), pp 151-8.
Encyclopaedias / Dictionaries
Dane Love – The Covenanter Encyclopaedia (Ayr: Fort Publishing Company, 2009).
Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology ed. Nigel M. de S. Cameron (Edinburgh, 1993).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (available to students via their universities)
Websites
British Civil Wars
Geograph: Killing Times grave photos and locations
Reformed Presbyterian History articles by Pastor Charles A. Brown (Westminster RPCNA, IL)
Scottish Reformation Tours Facebook Group
Reformation Tours
Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland
Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland
Semester in Scotland
Post Reformation Digital Library (a project which has digitised many of the Covenanters' writings)
Church Publications
Act, Declaration and Testimony for the whole of our Covenanted Reformation. Also available here
Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland: Historical and Doctrinal
Powerpoint (WIll download)
Scottish Reformation and Covenanter History |