Sheltering under the Covenant: The National Covenant, Orthodoxy and the Irish Rebellion, 1638-1642
Langley, Chris R. (2017) Sheltering under the Covenant: The National Covenant, Orthodoxy and the Irish Rebellion, 1638-1642. Scottish Historical Review, 96 (2). pp. 137-160. ISSN 0036-9241
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Abstract
The Irish Rebellion of October 1641 drove large numbers of clerical migrants across the Irish Sea to Scotland. These ministers brought news of Protestantism’s plight in Ireland, petitions for charitable aid and, in many cases, requests to work as preachers in Scotland. Historians have long recognised the social and religious links between Ireland and Scotland in the mid-seventeenth century and have seen these men as part of a wider effort to establish Presbyterianism across Britain and Ireland. Such an argument fails to understand the complexity of mid-seventeenth-century Presbyterianism. This paper explores these petitions for work and the less-than-enthusiastic response of ecclesiastical authorities in Scotland. Rather than automatically embracing Irish ministers as fellow Presbyterians, the Covenanted Kirk leadership was aware that the infant Presbyterian congregations in Ireland had followed a very different course to their own. Rather than fellow sufferers for Christ’s cause, or part of a wider Covenanted network, Kirk leaders needed to assess Irish ministers for their godly credentials.
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press in Scottish Historical Review. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2017.0333 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of of Arts, Society and Professional Studies > Department of Art and Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Jane Faux |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2017 12:15 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2019 16:52 |
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/15934 |
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