Richard Cameron and a small armed band rode into the market town of Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire on 22 June 1680 and posted the Sanquhar Declaration on the market cross. This document disowned Charles II as a tyrant and breaker of the Covenant and declared war on him in God's name. The Declaration was the most radical Covenanting act of the period and a direct challenge to royal authority that provoked intensified government counter-operations.
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