Lords of the Congregation

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.

  1. ^ T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 (Collins, 1969), p. 53.

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