1. John Nisbet was a Scottish covenanter who was executed for participating in the insurgency at Bothwell Brig and earlier conflicts and for attending a conventicle.
11 Facts About John Nisbet
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John Nisbet took an active and prominent part in the struggles, of the Covenanters for civil and religious liberty.
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John Nisbet was wounded and left for dead at Pentland in 1666 but lived and fought as a captain at Bothwell Bridge, in 1679.
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John Nisbet was a descendant of Murdoch Nisbet, a Lollard who translated the Bible into the Scots language.
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John Nisbet was the son of James Nisbet an Ayrshire tenant farmer at Drakemyre, and his wife, Jane Gibson.
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John Nisbet travelled to mainland Europe where he participated in the Thirty Years' War as a professional soldier.
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John Nisbet attended the 1650 coronation of Charles II at Scone, where he subscribed the covenant, swearing his allegiance to 'all the acts of reformation attained to in Scotland from 1638 to 1649'.
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John Nisbet refused to countenance the curates, and attended the ministrations of the 'outed' ministers, renewed the covenants at Lanark in 1666, and was one of the small band who published the declarations of the Societies at Rutherglen, Glasgow, and Sanquhar.
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John Nisbet fought at Rullion Green till, covered with wounds, he fell down and was stripped and left for dead upon the field.
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John Nisbet's companions were instantly shot, but for the sake of the reward he was spared, and, being brought to Edinburgh, was tried and condemned to death.
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John Nisbet is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, and there is a memorial monument at Loudoun Parish Kirk in Newmilns.