Covenanters

From this act they became known as Covenanters (1638).

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

The Covenanters were the more jealous of those assemblies, as the lord lieutenants and sheriffs under whom they were held had instructions from the government to spare no pains which might render them agreeable to the young men who were thus summoned together, upon whom the military exercise of the morning, and the sports which usually closed the evening, might naturally be supposed to have a seductive effect.

Old Mortality 2004

The Covenanters were the Old Guard, who stood for law, justice, government, and constitutional rights, on the accepted basis -- God's law and Covenant.

Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

The first notable service Renwick rendered to the Covenanters was his part in the public testimony given by the Society People, at Lanark,

Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

There was a society that existed up in the State of New York called the Covenanters that never voted.

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 Various

The Covenanters were his most loyal subjects, devoted to him on every principle of truth and righteousness; yet by no means would they permit him to assume the rights of Jesus Christ without their earnest protest.

Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

There was a society that existed up in the State of New York called the Covenanters that never voted.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

Lochiel, or Lord Nithsdale, or Derwentwater; for Claverhouse is the only Jacobite leader I can find a portrait of, and I am afraid the blood of the Covenanters is a blot on his escutcheon, a stain on his white wreath. '

Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It is by some called The Presbyterian Cat, but generally as above; and is always sung by the wags in mockery of the great pretended strictness of the Covenanters, which is certainly, in some cases, carried to an extremity rather ludicrous.

Cameronian Cat 1819

The Covenanters were the more jealous of those assemblies, as the lord lieutenants and sheriffs under whom they were held had instructions from the government to spare no pains which might render them agreeable to the young men who were thus summoned together, upon whom the military exercise of the morning, and the sports which usually closed the evening, might naturally be supposed to have a seductive effect.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801