16th-century Scottish nobles in support of the Protestant Reformation
The Preaching of Knox before the Lords of the Congregation, 10th June 1559 (David Wilkie, 1832)
The Lords of the Congregation (Scots: Lairds o the Congregatioun), originally styling themselves the Faithful,[1] were a group of Protestant Scottish nobles who in the mid-16th century favoured a reformation of the Catholic church according to Protestant principles and a Scottish-English alliance.
^T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 (Collins, 1969), p. 53.
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