Robert Baillie
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Robert Baillie was a Church of Scotland minister who became famous as an author and a propagandist for the Covenanters.
Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1847, Palace of Westminster
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
Robert Baillie
…Robert Baillie (30 April 1602 – 1662) was a Church of Scotland minister who became famous as an author and a propagandist for the Covenanters. In Baillie's engagement with the theological and liturgical controversies of the mid-Seventeenth Century, Baillie sought to reconcile his strong belief…
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