The Pluscarden Rising. Issue 1 (May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Watson, Graham
• Is Part Of: Northern Scotland. Volume 13:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 63
• Page End: 80
• Publication Date: 2022-05
• Subjects: Highlands -- early modern -- seventeenth-century -- Pluscarden -- Mackenzie -- Wars of the Covenant; Scotland -- History -- Periodicals; Highlands (Scotland) -- History -- Periodicals; Grampian (Scotland) -- History -- Periodicals; 941.1005
• DOI: 10.3366/nor.2022.0262
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-5278

Abstract

Abstract : This article concludes that the Pluscarden rising is more than the localised protest that previous historians have accepted, and that it was a planned Royalist rising. The story of the rising is outlined before a detailed approach is taken to the people involved. The international context of Royalist planning is examined. A new analysis of the reasons for the rising is then put forward.