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The Scottish Covenant was a petition to the United Kingdom government to create a home rule Scottish parliament. First proposed in 1930, [1] and promoted by the Scots Independent in 1939, the National Covenant movement reached its peak during the late 1940s and
The Scottish Convention elected in March to determine settlement of the Scottish throne was dominated by Covenanter sympathisers. On 4 April, it passed the Claim of Right and the "Articles of Grievances", which held James forfeited the Crown by his actions; on 11 May, William and Mary became co-monarchs of Scotland.
The National Covenant (Scottish Gaelic: An Cùmhnant Nàiseanta) [1] [2] was an agreement signed by many people of Scotland during 1638, opposing the proposed Laudian reforms of the Church of Scotland (also known as the Kirk) by King Charles I. The king's efforts to impose changes on the church in the 1630s caused widespread protests across ...
The Scottish Covenant Association was a non-partisan political organisation in Scotland in the 1940s and 1950s seeking to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly.It was formed by John MacCormick who had left the Scottish National Party in 1942 when they decided to support all-out independence for Scotland rather than devolution as had been their position.
The Scottish Convention succeeded in 1947 in setting up an assembly along the lines planned in 1939. [5] In 1951, MacCormick formed the Scottish Covenant Association, a non-partisan political organisation which campaigned to secure the establishment of a devolved Scottish Assembly. [1]
Six Saints of the Covenant, ed. by D. Hay Fleming pp. 45–178 [13] Johnston's Alexander Peden, the Prophet of the Covenant, and Treasury of the Scottish Covenant; Todd's Homes, Haunts, and Battlefields of the Covenanters; Jean L. Watson's Life and Times of Peden; Hewat's Peden the Prophet; Carslaw's Exiles of the Covenant; Tombstone
The Solemn League and Covenant was an agreement between the Scottish Covenanters and the leaders of the English Parliamentarians in 1643 during the First English Civil War, a theatre of conflict in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Munro, Neil. "Lion of the Covenant." In Ayrshire Idylls. Edinburgh: FrontList Books, 2004. 19–32. ISBN 1-84350-079-5 First published in 1912, this is a short story based on the killing of Richard Cameron by Royalist troops in 1680. Paterson, Raymond Campbell. A Land Afflicted, Scotland And The Covenanter Wars, 1638–1690.