1603 Scotland Scots Language- Inglis Feasgar math- Good afternoon Dè an t-ainm a tha ort? - What is your name? Religion Christianity, in 2001 65% of the Scottish population was Christian The Kirk- national church 15,000 Baptists, Episcopalians and conservative Presbyterians. Geography Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Bounded by England and water. 790 island including Northern Isles and the Hebrides. Largest lake the Lake of Menteith Largest loch Loch Lomond Highest Mountain Ben Nevis 4,406 feet high Regions Flora and Fauna Golden eagle Fortingall Yew 2000-5000 years old Coos are iconic to highland Fauna emblem of scotland is unicorn and rampant lion
William and Mary, Scotland briefly threatened to select a different Protestant monarch from England. On 22 July 1706 the Treaty of Union was agreed between representatives of the Scots Parliament and the Parliament of England and the following year twin Acts of Union were passed by both parliaments to create the united Kingdom of Great Britain with effect from 1 May 1707. The deposed Jacobite Stuart claimants had remained popular in the Highlands and north-east, particularly amongst non- Presbyterians. However, two major Jacobite risings launched in 1715 and 1745 failed to remove the House of Hanover from the British throne. The threat of the Jacobite movement to the United Kingdom and its monarchs effectively ended at the Battle of Culloden, Great Britain's last pitched battle. This defeat paved the way for large-scale removals of the indigenous populations of the Highlands and Islands, known as the Highland Clearances.
It set the tone in the soldiers' councils which in their preyer meetings discussed political and religious affairs. Thus, they were shaping the Army's theories about Church and State which included demands for religious toleration except for Roman Catholics and High Anglicans on the Right and Freethinkers and Unitarians on the Left. *Pride's Purge and the Rump Pride's Purge took place when troops under the command of Colonel Pride forcibly removed from the House of Commons all the Presbyterians and left less than 100 Independent members to represent the Commons- the Rump. The Rump abolished the House of Lords, passed a resolution that stated that the Commons of England in Parliament assembled have the supreme power in this nation. They also confiscated the Crown, Church, Royalists' lands and sold the outright. *Regicide 1649 The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a monarch, it refers to the judicial execution of a king after alleged due process of law
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