in practice Practice , the covenant Commitment also expressed Expressing_publicly a wider scottish dissatisfaction with charles 's policies , especially the sidelining of scotland since the stuart kings had also become Becoming monarchs of england in 1603 .

at least 3000 men of the scottish royal army led by tam dalyell of the binns opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act about 900 covenanter rebels .

james suspended Process_end the scottish and english parliaments when they refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to repeal the anti-catholic test Testing acts and efforts to rule without them caused Causation the instability his supporters wanted to avoid Preventing_or_letting .

restrictions on catholics contained Containing in the 1678 and 1681 english and scottish test Testing acts remained Presence in force until 1828 ; religious prohibitions on the monarch 's choice Choosing of spouse were not removed Removing until 2015 , while restrictions on the monarch personally remain Presence in place today .

although they partially retrieved Getting their fortunes with victories later in the year in southern england , the loss Earnings_and_losses of the north was to prove a fatal handicap the next year , when they tried Coming_to_believe unsuccessfully to link Having_or_lacking_access up with the scottish royalists under the marquess of montrose .

the radical war or also known as the scottish insurrection of 1820 , was a week of strikes Attack and unrest Hostile_encounter , a culmination of radical demands for reform in the united kingdom of great britain and ireland which had become Becoming prominent in the early years of the french revolution , but had then been repressed Hindering during the long napoleonic wars .

although the numbers of casualties Death were relatively small ( 1,300 royalists and 1,200 parliamentarians ) , historians who have studied Education_teaching the battle Hostile_encounter consider Statement it to be one of the most crucial of the first english civil war , marking Recording the high point of the royalist advance Cause_to_make_progress and leading to Causation the signing Sign_agreement of the solemn league and covenant Commitment , which brought Bringing the scottish covenanters into the war on the side of parliament and led to Causation the eventual victory of the parliamentarian cause Causation .

prior to the conference , robert mcintyre and douglas young , the leaders of the scottish national party Social_event , lobbied king , fraser , smuts , huggins , and curtin , asking Request them to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the issue of scottish independence at the conference and to invite Request scotland to take part in it and all future commonwealth conferences .

prior to the conference , robert mcintyre and douglas young , the leaders of the scottish national party Social_event , lobbied king , fraser , smuts , huggins , and curtin , asking Request them to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the issue of scottish independence at the conference and to invite Request scotland to take part in it and all future commonwealth conferences .

since naming Name_conferral a primary beneficiary in 1997 , the dallas marathon has donated Giving more than $ 3.8 million to texas scottish rite hospital for children .

the scottish national party Social_event signalled Communication its willingness to join Becoming_a_member labour and the liberal democrats in government as part of a rainbow coalition Collaboration , but it quickly became Becoming clear that gordon brown 's continued presence Presence as prime minister was seen Perception_active as a major obstacle to formulating Creating a unk democrat deal .