. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . ch the sameway as the first had done, by the King giving way tothe Covenanters. But King Charles 1. soon had otherthings to occupy his mind. He was getting into trou-ble with his Parliament and people of England, led byOliver Cromwell. Civil war broke out between Charlesand a large part of his own people, and the army ofCromwell and the Parliament proved too strong forthe King. Seeing he would be ol)liged to surrender,he cast himself upon the Scotch. x hey turned himover to the English, not expect-ing that t
. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . ch the sameway as the first had done, by the King giving way tothe Covenanters. But King Charles 1. soon had otherthings to occupy his mind. He was getting into trou-ble with his Parliament and people of England, led byOliver Cromwell. Civil war broke out between Charlesand a large part of his own people, and the army ofCromwell and the Parliament proved too strong forthe King. Seeing he would be ol)liged to surrender,he cast himself upon the Scotch. x hey turned himover to the English, not expect-ing that they would deal withhim as they did; but the Eng-lish Parliament condemned hinito death. So Charles I., theperfidious King, was beheade 1at the palace of Whitehall, in • London, in 1649. This dis-pleased the Scotch, lor while . they contended for religiousliberty, they had always main-tained their loyalty to the Kingin>ci\il matters. And nothing more is needed to prove .the true loyalty of the Scotch than the fact that afterCharles I. was beheaded, thev received his son Charles. King Charles I. 26 THE BLUE FLAG. an exile in Scotland, and crowned him there as theirKing, Charles IL Charles L was, like his father,James L, King of both England and Scotland. TheseStuart Kings were Scotchmen, and though they wereimmoral and faithless men, the Scottish people kept uptheir loyalty to them, though outrageously treated byboth father and son. CHAPTER Solemn League and Covenant/ WT HILE Charles I. was at war with his own Par-liament and people, the Scottish Covenantershad some rest from the interference of the King, whosehands were full in England. In August, 1643, anotherhistoric General Assembly was in session in that they were on the brink of a great crisis,this Assembly prepared another great document, thegreatest of all that they had yet adopted, called TheSolemn League and Covenant/ which was foryears to be their standard of belief and hope, and fromwhic
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