The Reformed Presbyterian Global Alliance is a communion of Presbyterians originating in Scotland in 1690 when its members refused to conform to the establishment of the Church of Scotland. The Reform
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, by John Henry Lorimer, 1891. National Gallery of Scotland.
Title page of the Solemn League and Covenant.
Covenanters in a Glen by Alexander Carse; an illegal field assembly or Conventicle.
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
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