Browse Resources: Collection of seven National Covenants.

Scope and Contents

Three of the covenants, Adv.MSS.20.6.14, 20.6.15, and 20.6.19, were probably signed in Edinburgh. The remaining four were all subscribed locally; in each case, the local signatures are preceded by the signatures, presumably written in beforehand in Edinburgh, of various noblemen, lairds, burgesses, and ministers of the Tables. Those dated 1638 lack the Glasgow Determination; those dated 1639 include it.

Dates

Creation: 1638-1639.

Extent

0.00 Linear metres

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Bibliography

The covenants are all listed in ‘Covenanters’ by J K Hewison (Glasgow, 1908), and in ‘National Covenant: a list of known copies’ by David Stevenson, in ‘Scottish Church History Society Records’, volume xxiii (1988), pages 255-299, especially pages 270-272.