Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

17th-century religious conflicts in Britain

1644 battle of the First English Civil War

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 in disputes with James VI and his son Charles I over church organisation and doctrine, but expanded into political conflict over the limits of royal authority.

1650-1652 English invasion of Scotland

1648 battle

role of Scotland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1653)

1643 agreement between Scottish Covenanters and Parliamentarians

novel by Walter Scott

thumb|The Moss-trooper, by Thomas Jones Barker Moss-troopers were brigands of the mid-17th century, who operated across the border country between Scotland and the northern English counties of Northumberland and Cumberland during the period of the English Commonwealth, until after the Restoration.

a covenant signed by the people of Scotland in 1638