Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Between 1639 and 1652, Scotland was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of wars starting with the Bishops' Wars, the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the English Civil War, the Irish Confederate Wars, and finally the subjugation of Ireland and Scotland by the English Roundhead New Model Army.
Riot sparked by Jenny Geddes over the imposition of Charles I's Book of Common Prayer in Presbyterian Scotland. Civil disobedience soon turned into armed defiance.
The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Churchyard, 1638 by William Hole
Montrose; a Covenanter general in 1639 and 1640 who became leader of the Royalist campaign 1644–1645
Archibald Campbell, Covenanter and Chief of the Campbell clan
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. The name is derived from covenant, a biblical term for a bond or agreement with God.
Greyfriars Kirkyard, where the National Covenant was signed in 1638
John Knox, who founded the reformed Church of Scotland or Kirk
1637 riots over the Book of Common Prayer
Covenanter political leader, the Marquess of Argyll
