The Scottish Covenant was a petition to the United Kingdom government to create a home rule Scottish parliament. First proposed in 1930, and promoted by...
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Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy...
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The Solemn League and Covenant was an agreement between the Scottish Covenanters and the leaders of the English Parliamentarians in 1643 during the First...
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Scottish Covenant Association was a non-partisan political organisation in Scotland in the 1940s and 1950s seeking to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly...
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Look up covenant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Covenant may refer to: Covenant (religion), a formal alliance or agreement made by God with a religious...
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Marquess of Montrose—and the Covenanters, who had controlled Scotland since 1639 and allied with the English Parliament. The Scottish Royalists, aided by Irish...
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The National Covenant (Scottish Gaelic: An Cùmhnant Nàiseanta) was an agreement signed by many people of Scotland during 1638, opposing the proposed reforms...
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Scottish devolution is the process of the UK Parliament granting powers (excluding powers over reserved matters) to the devolved Scottish Parliament....
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Presbyterians, known as Covenanters, who resisted attempts by the Stuart monarchs to control the affairs of the Church of Scotland, acting through bishops...
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The Scottish Covenanters is a 1909 production made by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia. It was shot in a studio in Caulfield...
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First Bishops' War (category 1639 in Scotland)
his Scottish subjects which were exacerbated over the king's attempts to reform the Scottish Kirk. In opposition to these policies the Covenanters formed...
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John MacCormick (category Scottish National Party politicians)
November 1904 – 13 October 1961) was a Scottish lawyer, Scottish nationalist politician and advocate of Home Rule in Scotland. MacCormick was born in Pollokshields...
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Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant, commonly known as the Ulster Covenant, was signed by nearly 500,000 people on and before 28 September 1912, in protest...
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Wars of the Three Kingdoms (category 17th century in Scotland)
Puritans and Scottish Covenanters opposed the changes Charles tried to impose on the Protestant state churches of England and Scotland. In Ireland, the...
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Engagers (category Covenanters)
The Engagers were a faction of the Scottish Covenanters, who made "The Engagement" with King Charles I in December 1647 while he was imprisoned in Carisbrooke...
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young Scottish Covenanter from Wigtown in Scotland who was executed by drowning for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII of Scotland (James...
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The Covenant of Water is a 2023 novel by physician and author Abraham Verghese. The book tells the story of a Malayali family living in southwest India...
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Alexander Peden (category Covenanters)
as "Prophet Peden", was one of the leading figures in the Covenanter movement in Scotland. Peden was born at Auchincloich Farm near Sorn, Ayrshire, about...
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Charles I of England (redirect from Charles I of Scotland)
from Reformed religious groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views too Catholic. He supported high church Anglican...
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Cameronian (category Covenanters)
Cameronian was a name given to a radical faction of Scottish Covenanters who followed the teachings of Richard Cameron, and who were composed principally...
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Redneck (section Historical Scottish Covenanter usage)
"Presbyterian", especially in communities along the Scottish border. Because of the large number of Scottish immigrants in the pre-revolutionary American South...
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Scottish independence (Scottish Gaelic: Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba; Scots: Scots unthirldom) is the idea of Scotland regaining its independence and once...
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Home rule (redirect from Scottish home rule)
significant, campaigning for a Scottish assembly. Between 1947 and 1950, the Scottish Covenant, a petition requesting a Scottish legislature within the UK...
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Bishops' Wars (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
across Scotland agreed a National Covenant, pledging resistance to liturgical "innovations". The Marquess of Argyll and six other members of the Scottish Privy...
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Wigtown Martyrs (category Persecution of the Covenanters)
and Margaret Wilson, were Scottish Covenanters who were executed by Scottish Episcopalians on 11 May, 1685 in Wigtown, Scotland, for refusing to swear an...
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Covenant theology (also known as covenantalism, federal theology, or federalism) is a Biblical Theology, a conceptual overview and interpretive framework...
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Edward Furgol, 'Scotland turned Sweden: the Scottish Covenanters and the military revolution’ in J. Morrill, ed., The National Covenant in its British...
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Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (category Covenanters)
compelled him to return to Scotland, where he was appointed "Lord General" in command of the Army of the Covenant by the Scottish administration, and as such...
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Kirk Party (category Covenanters)
The Kirk Party were a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. They came to the fore after the defeat...
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The Killing Time (category Persecution of the Covenanters)
The Killing Time was a period of conflict in Scottish history between the Presbyterian Covenanter movement, based largely in the southwest of the country...
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