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- The cemetery contains the remains of members of the Covenanter movement who died during the Battle of Rullion Green in 1666.
- Major John McCulloch of Barholm was executed for his part in the Pentland Rising and the battle of Rullion Green in 1666.
- He likely was a member of the Scottish Royalist force that defeated Covenanters at the Battle of Rullion Green in November 1666.
- After the failed uprising of the Covenanters at Rullion Green in 1666, he refused to vote for the execution of the captured rebels.
- There many of his force were slaughtered at the Battle of Rullion Green in the Pentland Hills, their actions becoming known as the Pentland Rising.
- In 1668 James Mitchell, a veteran of Rullion Green, failed in his attempt to assassinate the archbishop as his coach passed through Blackfriars'Wynd in Edinburgh.
- The hills were the scene of an incident in 1666 following the Rullion Green, after which the whole tragic episode was ( incorrectly ) named the Pentland Rising.
- We have our own Covenanter's stone in the kirk yard to a certain William Smith, who fought at Rullion Green in the Pentlands in the year 1666.
- The four attached Ionic columns on the frontispiece of the hospital were removed and incorporated as a combined column in a monument to the Covenanters who were defeated at the Battle of Rullion Green.
- Advancing from the west towards Edinburgh, a small force of poorly armed Covenanters was defeated at the Battle of Rullion Green in the Pentland Hills, a location which caused the whole tragic episode to be misleadingly named the Pentland Rising.
- The Royal Air Force flew a squadron of bombers low over Bombay harbour in a show of force, as Admiral Arthur Rullion Rattray, Flag Officer, Bombay, RIN, issued an ultimatum ordering the ratings to raise black flags and surrender unconditionally.
- On a morning patrol on the 12th, Harrop and Smith destroyed another Pfalz D . III, aided Arthur Rullion Rattray and his pilot in destroying an Albatros D . V, and drove down a third German fighter out of control over Saverne.
- The Ramsays held the lands at Bamff from 1232, Nessus de Ramsay having been physician to Charles I . It was his son, Gilbert who was made baronet in 1666 in recognition of his son, James's, bravery at the Battle of Rullion Green.