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Covenanters is a noun that historically refers to the Scottish Presbyterian movement that played a significant role in the history of Scotland in the 17th century
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They were always regarded as stern covenanters.
Presbyterian Covenanters became the de facto government.
Education remained fundamental to the ideas of the Covenanters.
Local Covenanters captured and burned the castle.
There seems to be two opinions about the Covenanters.
Fifty of the Covenanters were killed and eighty captured.
William grew up during the time of persecution of the Covenanters.
He was the first of the Covenanters to suffer in this way.
Previous to his appointment he was known as an active opponent of the Covenanters.
Scotland was divided between the Covenanters and those who supported the king.
Charles could now more easily make an alliance with the moderate Covenanters.
With the Covenanters the three weeks had been spent in the worst possible manner.
It is not therefore a useful way of understanding the Covenanters and their principles.
The Covenanters divided their forces.
Government dragoons searched the countryside arresting Covenanters and suppressing their services by force.
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The young ruler began his reign by breathing out threatenings against the Covenanters.
Of the Covenanters were in the west almost what the Puritans were.
Fought under him against the Covenanters.
Covenanters who refused to renounce their Covenant with God.
The Kirkyard was involved in the history of the Covenanters.
Meanwhile a series of minor engagements between Covenanters and Scottish royalist forces took place in Aberdeenshire.
Greyfriars Kirk has an important place in the history of the Scottish Covenanters.
To call the Covenanters Puritans sets aside the importance that they placed on Presbyterian principles.
He severely persecuted the Covenanters.
For those sixteen years the Dissenting Covenanters maintained their Societies for worship and religious correspondence.
Both were Presbyterians and strong Covenanters.
The Covenanters belonged to a Presbyterian movement.
Both his parents were Presbyterians and strong Covenanters.
The Covenanters had already proved themselves at Drumclog.
The faithful presbyterian ministers and Christians of the Second Reformation period are known as Covenanters.
Covenanters started their migration to North America by way of Ireland.
The Marquis of Newcastle cautiously followed the Covenanters south and established his headquarters at Durham.
The Covenanters shared certain principles with the English Puritans.
Every regiment had a blue flag, the favourite colour of the covenanters.
In the fight one of the Covenanters fired a pistol, wounding a dragoon.
As a result, both were defeated separately by the Covenanters.
Of these Covenanters appreciate the value and power of the truth?
McPhee … suddenly looked up with a hundred covenanters in his eyes.
But when the Covenanters prepared to take the field, he left the country.
Seaforth, however, later switched sides and joined the forces of the Covenanters.
For the following ten years, the Covenanters were the de facto government of Scotland.
The doctors were very disturbed and composed a list of queries, demanding the Covenanters response.
And that 's exactly what the Covenanters did with Scotland when they withdrew their allegiance.
Both stand to the south-west of the church, near the entrance to the Covenanters Prison.
Claverhouse returned to Glasgow, which the Covenanters briefly besieged but could not take without artillery.
Many Covenanters would end up fighting on both sides, such as Montrose.
For Lusk, the original Covenanters were to be preferred.
However, he also continued the persecution of the Presbyterian Covenanters in Scotland.
The Covenanters had six cannon, whereas the Confederates had none.
Would it not be natural to think of the Covenanters as Scottish Puritans?
