James Guthrie (minister)
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James Guthrie, was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and martyr. A supporter of the Scottish Reformation, he refused to follow the episcopal church of the king of England, and preached as a Covenanter;
James Guthrie (unknown artist) The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
James Guthrie statue by Alexander Handyside Ritchie, Valley Cemetery, Stirling 1857
Carisbrooke Castle, where a secret agreement, or "Engagement", was signed to back Charles I with an army in return for implementing the Solemn League and Covenant albeit in a weakened, some would say a compromised, form.
James Guthrie (Covenanter)
Covenanters
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Covenanters 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
James Guthrie (minister)
…minister and martyr. A supporter of the Scottish Reformation, he refused to follow the episcopal church of the king of England, and preached as a Covenanter; he was executed for treason in Edinburgh. Guthrie, the eldest son of the laird of Guthrie, Forfarshire, was born about 1612. He was educated at St…
John Knox, who founded the reformed Church of Scotland, or kirk
1637 riots over the Book of Common Prayer; some modern historians argue these were not spontaneous, but pre-planned
Covenanter political leader, the Marquess of Argyll
Alexander Leslie, Lord General of the Covenanter Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms