Articles of Leith

Leith Links, where the Lords of the Congregation debated a treaty on 24 July 1559

The Articles of Leith were the terms of truce drawn up between the Protestant Lords of the Congregation and Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland and signed on 25 July 1559. This negotiation was a step in the conflict that led to the Scottish Reformation. Although its immediate effect was the withdrawal of Protestant forces from Edinburgh, subsequent disputes over the content and observance of the treaty fuelled the crisis in Scotland.[1]

  1. ^ Pamela E. Ritchie, Mary of Guise in Scotland: A Political Career (East Linton, Tuckwell, 2002), p. 224.