Covenanters
A term applied, during the civil wars, to the Scotch
Presbyterians, who united by “solemn league and covenant” to resist the
encroachments of Charles I. on religious liberty.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Covenanters from Fact Monster:
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