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Solemn League and Covenant
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Solemn League and Covenant: see Covenanters Covenanters , in Scottish history, groups of Presbyterians bound by oath to sustain each other in the defense of their religion. The first formal Covenant was signed in 1557, signaling the beginning of the Protestant effort to seize power in Scotland.
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Solemn League and Covenant

(1643) Agreement between the English and Scots in which the Scots agreed to support the English Parliamentarians in their disputes with the Royalists, and both countries agreed to work for a civil and religious union of England, Scotland, and Ireland under a presbyterian-parliamentary system. The Scots sent an army to England in 1644, and Charles I surrendered to them in 1646. He later agreed to the covenant and received Scottish military assistance (1647). Neither Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth nor Charles II (after the 1660 Restoration) honoured the covenant, and it was not renewed. See also Covenanter.
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28 The Solemn League and Covenant, a key agreement in British Isles history, was signed in which year (10 either way)?
50 for fun; Phil Brown's trivia quiz by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
A THE cash - around pounds 200,000, which was an astronomical amount at the time - was half of the money the English owed the Scots army as back pay under the terms of the Solemn League and Covenant.
Tears as a true Scots hero went to scaffold by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Under the terms of the Solemn League and Covenant they had signed with the anti-Royalist parliamentarian forces in England, they were already fighting Charles I south of the border.
Millennium life; Montrose the magnificent by Collier, Andrew / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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