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Covenanter Leadership

Scotland · Warfare / Bishops War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1640Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1640

Archibald Campbell Argyll, 8th Earl1640

Edinburgh · Warfare / Bishops War, 2nd

Backs the Covenanter cause against Charles I's religious policies

John Kennedy Cassilis, 6th Earl1640

Edinburgh · Warfare / Bishops War, 2nd

Supports the Scottish Covenanting movement during the Bishops War

John Leslie Rothes, 6th Earl1640

Edinburgh · Warfare / Bishops War, 2nd

Supports the Covenanter leadership against royal religious policy

Names involved

Archibald Campbell Argyll, 8th EarlJohn Kennedy Cassilis, 6th EarlJohn Leslie Rothes, 6th Earl

Provenance

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