James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]
… country was dealing with Covenanters’ rebellions. These radical Presbyterians were refusing to swear allegiance to the king’s authority on the Church and kept holding illegal conventicles. The capital city was witnessing trials and … the Scots had been attached to their religious autonomy and could hardly bear the idea that their Church was ruled by a king from England. The Church of Scotland was independent and had to remain so. Moreover, the departure of the Stuarts for England created among them the feeling that they had been abandoned by their kings. The arrival of the prince resounded as the beginning of a new era: a sort of reconciliation with the …
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