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Covenanter

In Scottish history, one of the Presbyterian Christians who swore to uphold their forms of worship in a National Covenant, signed on 28 February 1638, when Charles I attempted to introduce a liturgy on the English model into Scotland.

A general assembly abolished episcopacy, and the Covenanters signed with the English Parliament the Solemn League and Covenant in 1643, promising military aid in return for the establishment of Presbyterianism in England. A Scottish army entered England and fought at Marston Moor in 1644. At the Restoration Charles II revived episcopacy in Scotland, evicting resisting ministers, so that revolts followed in 1666, 1679, and 1685. However, Presbyterianism was again restored 1688.



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In addition, the whole effort may prove beside the point if covenanters who change their minds can simply hop the border and file for divorce in another state whose laws do not recognize a covenant option; under current practice, most states would probably apply their own no-fault laws, even at the cost of ignoring the couple's original intent.
Free to commit: "covenant marriage" could strengthen families. So why ... by Olson, Walter / Reason
Although the central players at Court and in the negotiations with the Covenanters were the nobility, this book correctly recognizes the growing significance of the gentry and burgesses within an oligarchic revolutionary movement.
An Uncounselled King: Charles I and the Scottish Troubles, 1637-1641 by MacInnes, Allan I. / Renaissance Quarterly
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