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Covenanters [a] were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. It originated in disputes with James VI and his son Charles I over church organisation and doctrine , but expanded into political conflict over the limits ...
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.
Robert Baillie (30 April 1602 – 1662) was a Church of Scotland minister who became famous as an author and a propagandist for the Covenanters. [1]In Baillie's engagement with the theological and liturgical controversies of the mid-Seventeenth Century, Baillie sought to reconcile his strong belief in maintaining Kirk unity with a firm adherence to a Christian doctrine dictated by the divine ...
Walter Scott, whose portrayal of the Covenanters Brownleee called an injustice, was the epic's inspiration. Brownlee also edited the Dutch Church Magazine (four volumes), founded The Protestant Vindicator newspaper in 1834, and published several books, including: Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers (1824)
Robert Wodrow was the youngest son of James Wodrow, Professor of Divinity, at the University of Glasgow. [3] He was born in the Trongate there, April (or September) 1679. At the very hour of his birth, soldiers under warrant of the Privy Council, were searching the house to seize his father, but the latter, having exchanged clothes with the physician's man-servant, succeeded in escaping.
Ch. 9 (22): Henry is horrified by the extreme views expressed at a council of the Covenanters. Ch. 10 (23): Henry accepts Cuddie's offer to enter his service and receives from him the deceased Bothwell's pocket-book. He joins in a council of six to plan the reduction of Tillietudlem. Ch. 11 (24): Evandale arrives at Tillietudlem.