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SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT

The Solemn League and Covenant was an alliance made in 1643 between the English Parliamentarians and the Scots to counteract the substantial help rendered to Charles I by the Irish, Vane, on behalf of the Parliament, effected a contract with Scotland agreeing, in return for the aid of a Scottish army of 20,000 men, that England should accept the Presbyterian form of church government. The treaty was signed on September the 25th 1643, and the Covenant was subscribed by large numbers of the English clergy.
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