Samuel Rutherford
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Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
Samuel Rutherford St. Andrews
The Signing of the National Covenant. The Victorian painter William Hole places Henderson (standing on the gravestone) at the centre of events in 1638. Archibald Johnston is on the left and Samuel Rutherford is also depicted.
Rutherford's Monument, Anwoth
Rutherford's Monument
Parliament of Scotland
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The Parliament of Scotland, also known as the Estates of Scotland, was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the 13th century until 1707. The parliament evolved during the early 13th century
Samuel Rutherford
…Lex, Rex was ordered by the Committee of Estates to be burnt at the Crosses of Edinburgh and St Andrews by the hand of the common hangman, while the "Drunken Parliament" deprived him of all his offices and voted that he not be permitted to die in the college. He was cited to appear before Parliament on a charge of…
Parliament House 18thcentury Edinburgh
Scone and its Moot hill emerged as a favoured meeting place of the early colloquia and councils in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh. Usual meeting place of Parliament from 1438 to 1560
St Giles' Cathedral, common meeting place of Parliament from 1563 to 1639.