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Reformed Presbytery After the "Glorious Revolution," in 1688, the Kirk of Scotland was re-established, in 1690, in Scotland, upon grounds viewed as defective by those remnant people adhering to the United Societies--the Covenanters. The re-establishing of the Kirk is known as the "Revolution Settlement" of the Kirk of Scotland. The three men the "United Socieities" had sent to Holland for training, Revs. Alexander Shields, Thomas Lining and William Boyd, united with the Kirk of Scotland, in 1691. Although their last faithful minister, James Renwick, had been martyred for adhering to the principles of the Covenanted Reformation, in 1688, they continued their dissent by remaing outside the pale of the established kirk. The "United Societies" remained in a scattered and cast-down state until the accession of the Rev. John McMillan, in October, 1706. With the accession of the Rev. Thomas Nairn from the Associate Presbytery, the Reformed Presbytery was constituted at Braehead, Parish of Carnwath, Scotland, on August 1, 1743 O.S. by he and Rev. John McMillan.