The Glasgow General Assembly of November 1638 was the constitutional turning point of the Covenanting revolution. Meeting despite the king's dissolution order it deposed the bishops and abolished episcopacy, reversing decades of Stuart religious policy. Charles I viewed this as rebellion. The Assembly in effect established a constitutional framework for armed resistance to the Crown.
Covenanting assembly; royal commissioner Hamilton withdrew in protest
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