“A True Coppie of the Declaration Published at Sanqhair Upon the Tenth day of August 1692”
Sanquhar in Upper
Nithsdale was the site of several 'Declarations'. The Cameron
Declaration (22 June 1680) was a statement of open rebellion
against Charles II. The Renwick Declaration (28 May 1685)
rejected James II as King.
This Declaration,
published on 10 August 1692, rejects the practices of King William
III and Queen Mary as "too Catholic". Freedom of religion for
Presbyterians in Scotland had been granted by William III in 1690
and the remaining committed Covenanters and Cameronians were only a
tiny remnant of what they had been.
In the Declaration they describe themselves as "a poor, wasted,
misrepresented remnant of the suffering anti-popish, anti-prelatic,
anti-erastian, anti-sectarian, true Presbyterian Church of
Scotland".
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