Jacobite rising of 1689 been enthusiastic and supported the Revolution, but soon became disenchanted with the new regime. This later led to many breakaway movements in the Church of Scotland. The first major crisis to hit the reign of William III was the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692, where unarmed civilians of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were massacred by government troops, because their chief was late in signing an oath of allegiance to William, having been prevented from doing so on time because of severe weather conditions in the mountains that he had to cross. Jacobite rising of 1689 The Jacobite rising of
Scottish clan that separates Scottish "clanship" from the "tribalism" that is found in aboriginal groups in Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Civil Wars divided the clans. As the civil wars of the Three Kingdoms broke out in the mid 17th century, the Covenanters were supported by the powerful Clan Campbell and Clan Sutherland, and were opposed by the royalist House of Huntly (Clan Gordon). Clan support for the royal house of Stuart was based mainly on the political values of clanship. Clan support for Charles I had more to do with being against the Covenanting movement than that of supporting an absentee