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.
- ^ T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 (Collins, 1969), p. 53.