The Incident (conspiracy)

The Incident was a Royalist plot to kidnap a group of Scottish nobles. The Incident took place in October 1641 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the plot's targets were all prominent members of the Presbyterian Covenanter faction who opposed Charles I's attempts to control the Scottish Church.

The plot was directed against Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, James Hamilton, Marquis of Hamilton, and the latter's brother, William Hamilton, Earl of Lanark. The plot was hatched by Argyll's Royalist rival James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who had already attempted to have Argyll charged with high treason.

The plot failed and Charles, denying any involvement in the matter, was left with no option but to agree to the Covenanters' demands that he assented to the abolition of episcopacy in Scotland, and appoint Covenanting nobles to the Privy Council of Scotland and other positions.

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