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Lords of the Congregation
16th-century Scottish nobles in support of the Protestant Reformation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lords of the Congregation (Scots: Lairds o the Congregatioun), originally styling themselves the Faithful,[1] were a group of Protestant Scottish nobles who in the mid-16th century favoured a reformation of the Catholic church according to Protestant principles and a Scottish-English alliance.
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