Brander, M. 1993. Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads. New York: Barnes & Noble Books.
Brownlee, T. 1810?. The battle of Drumclog, fought on the 1st June, 1679. Between the King's troops, and the covenanters/By the Laird of Torfoot, an officer in the Presbyterian army. Glasgow.
Campbell, T. 1996. Standing Witnesses : a guide to the Scottish Covenanters and their memorials, with a historical introduction. Edinburgh: Saltire Society. Pp 14-15, 52, 95, 106, 130, 135, 136-137.
Information on Sources & Publication
There are no detailed modern studies of the battlefield, though it is discussed briefly in several overview texts of military history, such as Black 1936 and Brander 1993. Contemporary secondary sources and a few primary accounts from participants, such as Claverhouse (Graham 1840), report the battle action but offer little information to pinpoint a definitive location. Claverhouse also sent a letter to George Livingston, the Earl of Linlithgow and Commander-in-Chief in Scotland, giving an account of the skirmish with the Covenanters at Drumclog, and ending, "What theses rogues will doe next I know not, but the contry was floking to them from all hands. This maybe counted the begining of the rebelion in my opinion "; Glasgow, 1 June, 1679; This is also copied in Scott's Old Mortality (1871), 17, 95]. There is also a small collection of miscellaneous documents, covering the period 1679-1894. There are 5 items in this collection, of which only one is relevant: This item comprises 2 letters written to the Earl of Linlithgow, by Lord Ross, after Drumclog, 1679, and by the Earl of Dumbarton regarding Argyll's invasion 1685 (f.1). The first of these letters is headed with Glasgow, Sunday 9 o'clock at night. It describes how the writer discovered a party marching to Glasgow, from whom he got intelligence of the battle. He does not describe the news of the engagement. A further source is found in the Army Muster Rolls. The bulk of the muster rolls fall between 1667-1704. They appear to be those delivered to the Treasury, where they were used for drawing up precepts (warrants) for army pay. Besides the names of officers and soldiers in each troop, they normally give the place and date of the muster. This information may not be altogether reliable as there were complaints that the rolls given into the Treasury were falsified, despite heavy penalties for falsification; rolls covering the period in which Drumclog was fought include E100/6 HM Life Guards, 1678-1707, most of the rolls being later in date. There are also a number of nineteenth century collections of battle memoirs and histories (ie Aiton 1821; Brownlee 1810 & 1822).
Cartographically, the The Roy map of 1747-1755 shows the rural landscape around Drumclog, as well as the road network as it appeared in the mid-18th century, while the Ordnance Survey first edition mapping shows the location of battlefield marked as well as a note stating 'human bone found here'.
Primary Sources
Graham, J. 1840. Curious document respecting the Battle of Drumclog. Scotland?: n.p. Shelfmark: APS.2.202.030(3). [attributed to Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee]
[Small miscellaneous collections, 1679-1894]. Shelfmark: MS 1004. [includes: Letters written by George Ross, 11th Lord Ross (d. 1682) to George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow (1616-1690) after the battle of Drumclog in 1679].
Archive/Library: British Library
Miscellaneous historical letters, etc. 1375-1810. Shelfmark: Stowe 142 (f. 95). [includes John Graham, of Claverhouse [Viscount of Dundee, 1688] to [George Livingston]
Archive/Library: National Archives of Scotland
Army Muster Rolls, 1641-1707. Shelfmark: E/100.
Archive/Library: Glasgow University Library
Brownlee, T. 1810?. The battle of Drumclog, fought on the 1st June, 1679. Between the King's troops, and the covenanters/By the Laird of Torfoot, an officer in the Presbyterian army. Glasgow. Shelfmark: Sp Coll RB 2499/35.
Brownlee, T. and W. C. Brownlee. 1822. Narrative of the battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge : the former fought on the 1st, and the latter on the 22d of June, 1679 between the King's troops and the Covenanters. Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Young. Sp coll Mu56-h.18.
Creichton, J. 1827 [1731]. The memoirs of Captain John Creichton, from his own materials/drawn up and digested by Jonathan Swift. London: re-printed for Hunt and Clarke. Shelfmark: Sp Coll BC8-d.19 or U1-g.20. [see especially volume 13 pp. 179-180].
Cartographic & Illustrative Sources
Ordnance Survey. First edition county series 1:10560. 1863-64.
Roy, W. 1747-55. Military Survey of Scotland. Available digitally at geo.nls.uk/roy/ [Last accessed 4/7/2011].
Secondary Sources
Archive/Library: Glasgow University Library
Aiton, W. 1821. A history of the rencounter at Drumclog, and battle at Bothwell Bridge. Shelfmark: Sp Coll B04-f.1. Also available in National Library Scotland, Edinburgh University Library and British Library.
Anonymous. N.d. Narrative of the Battles of Drumclog, and Bothwell Bridge. Chapbook in the Wylie Collection, Glasgow University Library shelfmark Sp Coll Bh 13-c.7.
Black, C.S. 1936. Scottish battles. Glasgow: Brown Son & Ferguson.
Brander, M. 1993. Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. Shelfmark: Music F45:18 BRA. Also available in National Library Scotland and British Library.
Brotchie, T. C. F. The battlefields of Scotland : their legend and story. New York: Dodge Publishing, 1913. Shelfmark: History DV620 BRO. Also available in National Library Scotland and British Library.
Campbell, T. 1996. Standing witnesses : a guide to the Scottish Covenanters and their memorials, with a historical introduction. Edinburgh: Saltire Society. Pp 14-15, 52, 95, 106, 130, 135, 136-137. Shelfmark: Theology SD220 CAM. Also available in National Library Scotland, Edinburgh University Library and British Library.
Clark, D. 1996. Battlefield walks : Scotland. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. Shelfmark: History DV620 CLA. Also available in National Library Scotland and British Library.
Hamilton, J. Scottish Battles. New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset, 2004.
MacMeeken, J. W. and Church Reformed Presbyterian. 1849. A tribute to the memory of our Scottish martyrs : their privileges, their sufferings and faithfulness and our duty in reference to their example ; a sermon preached on the battle-field of Drumclog, on Sabbath, 24th June, 1849. Glasgow: John Keith & Son. Shelfmark: Sp Coll BG57-d.14. Also available in National Library Scotland and Edinburgh University Library.
Scott, W. 1871. Old mortality, Waverley novels; Vol. 5. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black.
Whyte, I. and K. Whyte. 1990. On the Trail of the Jacobites. London: Routledge. Shelfmark: History DW1400 WHY. Also available in National Library Scotland and British Library.
Wilson, W. 1751. The true and impartial relation of the persecuted Presbyterians in Scotland; their rising in arms, and defeat at Bothwell-Bridge, in the year 1679. Glasgow. Shelfmark: Sp Coll Mu40-f.5. Other editions: 1797, 1809. Also available in National Library Scotland and British Library.
Archive/Library: National Library Scotland
Bryce, D.2008. The Covenanting Battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge.
Archibald, M. 1990. Scottish battles, Chambers mini guides. Edinburgh: Chambers.
Drummond, J. 1861. The Bluidy Banner of Drumclog & Bothwell Brig. With illustrations of ... others carried by the covenanters on the same occasions. (Read before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 14th June, 1859.). Shelfmark: X.170.b.2(1).
Forbes, George. 1996. Scottish battles: 86 A.D. to 1746. Glasgow: Lang Syne. Shelfmark: HP2.96.6240. Also available in British Library.
R. B, M. 1860. The later struggles of the Scottish Covenanters. From the Battle of Drumclog to the revolution, Services of song; 2. Paisley: J. and R. Parlane. Shelfmark: 3.2718(11).
Smurthwaite, D. 1993. The Complete Guide to the Battlefields of Britain. London: Mermaid. Shelfmark: Map.s.256.5. Also available in British Library.
Archive/Library: Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Hearne, R. 1681. Loyalties severe summons to the bar of conscience, or, A seasonable and timely call to the people of England, upon the present juncture of affairs being an epitome of the several praeliminaries or gradual steps the late times took to their ... ruine, by their civil dissentions, through a needless fear of the subverting, losing, and destroying of religion, liberty of the subject, and priviledges of Parliament. London: Printed by Thomas Milbourn and sold by Randal Taylor. Available digitally at gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12861377 [Last accessed 2/3/2010].
Shields, A. 1690. A Short Memorial of the Sufferings and Grievances, Past and Present, of the Presbyterians in Scotland: Particularly of those of them called by the Nick-name Cameronians. Edinburgh?: n.p. Available digitally at gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:9102270 [Last accessed 25/2/2010].
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The Gazetteer for Scotland. 2010. Drumclog Battlefield. www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst2009.html [Last accessed: 4/7/2011]. (This is an updated online version of Groome's Gazetteer for Scotland of 1901.)
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