Archibald Johnston
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Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston was a Scottish judge and statesman.
Archibald Johnston of Wariston
The Signing of the National Covenant. The Victorian painter William Hole places Alexander Henderson (standing on the gravestone) at the centre of events in 1638. Archibald Johnston is on the left.
Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1644
Warriston was hanged at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh, now marked by these pavement setts.
Restoration (Scotland)
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The Restoration was the return of the monarchy to Scotland in 1660 after the period of the Commonwealth, and the subsequent three decades of Scottish history until the Revolution and Convention of Est
Archibald Johnston
…State. On the restoration of the Rump Parliament in 1649, and on its suppression, he became permanent president of the Committee of Safety. After the restoration of the monarchy he fled abroad. He was condemned to death in absentia and arrested in Rouen. With Louis XIV's consent he was returned to Britain and after a spell of…
Charles II, restored to the throne of Scotland in 1660
The Scots holding the young Charles II's nose to the grindstone of the Engagement, from a satirical English pamphlet.
General George Monck, who was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II
James Sharp, a Resolutioner and then archbishop, who was murdered in 1679