medieval-atlas/the-church/393

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Covenanter dominance In the Glasgow Assembly (21 November to 20 December 1638) the covenanters and that so few withdrew on Hamilton's orders, all covenanters overthrew the royal control over the church built up by indicate the success the covenanters had had in dominating elections lames VI and Charles I. Archbishops and bishops were abolished -either through genuine support or, in some areas, through intimidaand a presbyterian system ofgovernment established, innovations in tion and other malpractices. The almost total lack of members from forms of worship and in doctrine also being rejected. the Highlands, except for Argyll and the eastern fringes, reflects the Elections to the assembly were organised by the covenantlack oforganisation of the church in much of the north and west; and ers, who laid down that membership should consist of three ministhe limited representation ofthe north-east reflects the distribution of ters and one elder from each presbytery, one burgess from each royal presbyteries and royal burghs as much as lack of enthusiasm for the burgh (two from Edinburgh), and a representative ofeach university. Covenant. This map indicates the number of members (if any) sent by each presbytery who attended throughout. Others withdrew on the orders of the king's commissioner, or were commissioned but evidently did not attend; in yet other cases the member's commission was rejected. o attempt has been made to indicate cases in which com missions were rejected because they did not conform to the rules laid down for representation (the university of Glasgow's commission to four members instead of one, Rothesay's attempt to constitute a separate presbytery, the commission to a second elder from Orkney). The facts that so few commissions were rejected, that only two of the members thus rejected were excluded as opponents 0J omoch MME Tain _~ MMMEBU Elgin ~n~nonrf1.s;. MM::.:.r ".~ _ ?~~~~~ Deer ~nve~ ' Aberlou _ fiLr-.. -MMME J MM£B /. trathboiie ~ ~EllaFz / ) Carioch bemeth -) ~~lfo~M' ~ ( 5 -MMME berdeen7Kincardine Q'Nel 7MMEU ~M../ o Fordoun -MMME ~. / ,/] Brechin B c??/~ Du--;(k;(d Meigle ForfarC ./JJ ~MME MME"-----MMMEB t76 " Arbroath Perth undee ~MMMEB MMEB Auchterariier C ~SI Andrews Q MMME _ upar _ MMMEBBBBBB Argyll -Dunbif{ne MMMEB /' r131M MMMe~Stirling ...r--'fiirkcaldy /...f M~MEB, eMMMEBBBB • ~ ~ . ~.pnfermlin~ Dunbar ~J ~~ Linlithgow~MMM{,BjJ/{ ftMMMEBB NMM~~.,_.. ~la~~::EBE~inburg~ J -Haddin8to~ ~~ Pazsley _ MMk!~I!{J MMMEBBj) -. MMMEB \ MEB ~amilton ~ fJalkellh _ Clprnside MMMEIJ