Take the Covenant not the Pledge Traditional Cache
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Take the Covenant not the Pledge
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A magnetic nano Cache, a dash and cache.
This is a commemorative stone, beside Dalmore Distillery, it’s exact date is uncertain. The date on the stone has been worn away but it first appears on a map in 1906.
Known as the Covenanters Stone it commemorates one of the last Presbyterian Conventicles. “the only place in Ross-shire in which the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is known to have been dispensed to the Covenanters during the days of persecution…in Sept 1675.”
An older map does record a ‘Covenanters Tree’ nearby. it appears to have been cut down about the same time as the stone was erected.
Conventicles were open air religious gatherings held in defiance of Scotland's rulers of the time who wished to outlaw Presbytrianism in favour of Episcopalianism.
In May 1662,King Charles I claimed the right to decide how the church should be organised, he abolished Presbyterianism. the King and Archbishop Laud imposed a new liturgy and prayer book upon the Church of Scotland.
From 1665, anyone attending a conventicle could be fined or imprisoned and in 1670 an ‘Act against Conventicles’ declared that any who preached or prayed at field conventicles would be punished by death.
Large rewards were also offered for any who would seize field preachers.
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There is a round Dalmore Walk nearby, going out to Alness Point. with views over to the Black Isle
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