Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, the congregation in whose churchyard the National Covenant was signed, publishes this account of the 1638 signing, describing the document as a declaration of the right of ordinary people to exercise their own consciences in matters of faith against the king's claimed authority over the church, with an original copy still on display in the church's own museum.
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Reliability Tier1
A living Church of Scotland congregation's own published history of an event that took place in its own churchyard, tier 1, used here for the Covenant's content and its own account of the document's significance, corroborated by St Giles' Cathedral's own account below. NotesUsed for the Covenant's description as a declaration of conscience against the king's claimed authority, and for the surviving original copy held in the church's museum.
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PublisherGreyfriars Kirk
URLhttps://greyfriarskirk.com/history/the-national-covenant/
Source Typereligious body
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- Spread Events, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
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