Cameronianadj.n.

1689 (title) The humble address and supplication of the Cameronian Presbyterians in Scotland.

1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 15 Cameronian Zealots in the Western Shires.

1714 A. Lowe Vindic. Church of Scotl. Introd. Ep. sig. b3 The 23d. Act of the said Parliament of James 7th..made it Treason to refuse to Abjure the Cameronian Declaration.

1789 R. Mason Particular Descr. Kelso 113 Here is..a Cameronian meeting-house, a Quaker meeting-house, and a Methodist meeting-house.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Answ. Introd. Ep. 74 (note) Having sent for a Cameronian clergyman when he was in extremis.

1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxxiii. 360 That Deadly Muselessness of the Cameronian leaders.

1920 H. V. Milligan Stephen Collins Foster iv. 43 So many people carried on their legitimate inheritance of Cameronian fidelity to the old Presbyterian creed and practice.

1975 A. Calder in W. Scott Old Mortality 24 The Cameronian rump, led by the preacher James Renwick, published in November 1684 a declaration in which they proclaimed their right to ‘punish’ those who opposed them.

2007 J. Stephen Sc. Presbyterians & Act of Union 1707 iv. 112 Cameronian ideology had gone down the road of a covenanted republic.

1726 J. Ker Mem. 56 Arrears of Pay, that was due to some of the Cameronian Officers.

1753 J. Railton Examples for either Sex 13 It is well known to some Cameronian Officers, that I claim'd Kindred to her Grace's Family seven or eight Years past.

1840 J. Browne Hist. Highlands II. viii. 181 The Cameronian commander accordingly made the necessary preparations for defence.

1893 Caian Easter 56 The great feature amongst the entertainments was the smoking concert given by the C.U.R.V. to the Cameronian sergeants' mess.

1916 Caledonian Apr. 11/1 Private Rastrick, a Cameronian soldier, at Randalstown.

1998 Daily Tel. 2 Nov. 21/2 The series of female inheritances was broken by their son, Major-General Sir Walter Constable-Maxwell-Scott,..a much-decorated Cameronian officer.

1690 J. Sage in Acct. Present Persecution Church Scotl. ii. 8 That other Party, now commonly known by the name of Cameronians, from one Mr. Richard Cameron, who..was killed at last in open Rebellion, at Airds-moss, and so commenced Martyr Anno 1680.

1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 229 The Cameronians pretend neither to acknowledge king William or king James, but king Jesus, and declare for the old covenant.

1718 G. Crokatt Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 59 A mad People, headstrong Trytors and Rebels, that is, in a Word, they are Cameronians.

1788 J. Skinner Eccl. Hist. Scotl. II. 565 The Sunday following, both the Cameronians about Edinburgh and the Presbyterians in the town preached upon the union and agreement of the two parties.

1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 230 The religious sect called Hill-men, or Cameronians, was at that time much noted for austerity and devotion.

1886 Dict. National Biogr. VIII. 302/1 It ought to be added that the ‘reformed presbyterians’ decline the term ‘Cameronian’, although to this day it is applied to them in popular use.

1922 T. Johnston Hist. Working Classes Scotl. v. 95 Round the Wild Whigs, Wanderers, Faithful Remnants, Hillmen, Cameronians and Macmillanites, tradition has woven a story which one would not willingly let die.

1972 T. Tobin in A. Pitcairne Assembly 18 The Cameronians singularly opposed the absolutist policies of the crown.

1990 A. Munro Friend of my Youth 26 The Cameronians..are or were an uncompromising remnant of the Covenanters—those Scots who in the seventeenth century bound themselves, with God, to resist prayer books, bishops, any taint of popery or interference by the King.

1716 L. Echard Gazetteer's or Newsman's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. G3/2 The Earl of Angus's Regiment, nam'd, Cameronians.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 375 The outposts of the Cameronians were speedily driven in.

1888 J. H. Lawrence-Archer Brit. Army 246 The Cameronians... This peculiar old corps..now forms the first battalion of the Scottish Rifles.

1968 Times 16 May 14/7 The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) were disbanded on Tuesday at a ceremony at Douglas, Lanarkshire.

a1985 P. White With the Jocks (2003) 420 Finally our company reached its dispersal area where we found a lot of chaps of the 7th Cameronians crouching in slit trenches.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) 6 Apr. 16/8 For 10 years, until 1939, he was a territorial officer with the Cameronians.

1717 D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. 197 The Earl of Angus's Regiment, which was rais'd among these very People at the Revolution, and was call'd, the Cameronian Regiment.

1802 Times 4 Nov. 3/4 This morning the 26th or Cameronian Regiment embarked at Mutton Cove.

1911 A. Lang Short Hist. Scotl. xxvi. 231 The Cameronian regiment, recruited from the young men of the organised societies, had been ordered to occupy Dunkeld.

2005 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 4 When..Dick was in the Cameronian Regiment in the army, they travelled around with him to many locations including Kenya, Germany, France and Scotland.