The Mauchline Moor gathering of June 1648 was one of the largest anti-Engagement demonstrations in Scotland. Thousands of western Covenanters — the Whiggamores — assembled in open defiance of the Scottish parliament's treaty with Charles I. Government cavalry under General Middleton dispersed the gathering. The incident was a precursor to the Whiggamore Raid later that year when the western Covenanters marched on Edinburgh and expelled the Engager government. The word Whig derives from this protest.
Several killed in the dispersal
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