As a result, some of their General Assembly members signed a secret treaty with Charles I in 1647, known as The Engagement, which promised that Charles would support the establishment of Presbyterianism, in England for a period of three years, in return for a military alliance with the Covenanters.

For this reason, one faction of the Covenanters, the Engagers, signed a secret deal with Charles I called the " Engagement ".

Quote: " Further, in their secret meetings they said that the Christ who was born in the earthly and visible Bethlehem and crucified at Jerusalem was ' evil ', and that Mary Magdalene was his concubine – and that she was the woman taken in adultery who is referred to in the Scriptures ; the ' good ' Christ, they said, neither ate nor drank nor assumed the true flesh and was never in this world, except spiritually in the body of Paul.

Marie-Victoire, Princess de Rohan —' Charles's secret granddaughter ', the elder daughter of Charlotte Stuart

* In 1998, Sir Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, conceived ' Operation Cobalt ', the secret and ultimately successful buyback of two of the Tate's paintings by JMW Turner that had been stolen from a German gallery in 1994.

The Cheka ( secret police ) blamed the rebellion on Petrograd's intellectuals, prompting the senior Cheka officer Yakov Agranov to forcibly extract the names of ' conspirators ', from an imprisoned professor, guaranteeing them amnesty from execution.

The Cuban Revolutionary Party's ' Bases and Statutes ' aimed at: 1 ) Winning absolute independence for Cuba and aiding that of Puerto Rico ; 2 ) ordering a ' generous and brief war ' that would ensure peace and happiness for all Cuba's inhabitants ; 3 ) organizing this war so that it should be ' republican in spirit and methods ', and lead to a society fulfilling ' in the historical life of the continent '; 4 ) ensuring that no ' authoritarian spirit and bureaucratic make-up of the colony ' would exist in the new Cuba ; 5 ) preventing any one particular group from having more power than other groups ; 6 ) creating a harmonious fatherland with economic prosperity ensured by allowing outlets for the economic activities of all its inhabitants ; 7 ) maintaining friendly relations with the U. S .; and, 8 ) bringing the above intentions through a set of concrete aims: to unite all Cubans living abroad, to bring together all factions inside and outside of Cuba, to prepare inside Cuba the knowledge and spirit of the revolution, to collect funds, to establish relations with friendly peoples to accelerate the success of the war, and finally, to organize the Cuban Revolutionary Party according to the secret rules agreed upon by the founding organizations.

* Author Renato Vesco revived the wartime theory that the foo fighters were a new Nazi secret weapon in his work ' Intercept UFO ', reprinted in a revised English edition as ' Man-Made UFOs: 50 Years Of Suppression ' in 1994.

From 1950 he headed ' The Association ', a secret organization prepared to oppose communist attempts at subversion.

Under the encouragement of her fellow student and later husband Victor Willing, Rego kept a ' secret sketchbook ', alongside her official school sketchbooks, whilst at the Slade, in which she made free form drawings of a type that would have been frowned upon by her tutors.

On 12 January 1547 Norfolk acknowledged that he had ' concealed high treason, in keeping secret the false acts of my son, Henry Earl of Surrey, in using the arms of St. Edward the Confessor, which pertain only to kings ', and offered his lands to the King.

0096, a Neo Zeon splinter group called ' The Sleeves ', led by Full Frontal, described as being ' The second coming of Char ', fought with the Earth Federation over Laplace's box and the secret of the Universal Century.

* In the Fables comic book, King Cole was the long-time mayor of ' Fabletown ', a secret community of ' Fables ', who were forced into exile in our world by a conqueror at home.

Outsiders refer to the building as a ' tomb ', the customary appellation for a secret society structure at Yale, however, many BZ members refer to their building as " The Hall.

The Council of State originates from the 13th century by which time the King's Court ( Curia regis ) had split into three sections, one of which was the King's Council ( Curia in consilium, later Conseil du roi ), which too broke up into three distinct parts: the Conseil secret ' Privy Council ', the Conseil privé ' Private Council ', and Conseil des finances ' Council of Finances '.

He was educated at Marlborough College, where he joined the College's secret ' Society of Amici ', in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice ( whose unfinished autobiography The Strings are False contains numerous references to Blunt ), John Betjeman and Graham Shepard.

Conspiracy theorists often claim that the statistically inevitable occasional appearance of the number 77 in large events such as terrorist attacks hints at ' high-level involvement of powerful white supremist, Zionist and / or Christian-based secret societies ', e. g., Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on September 11, or the infamous 7 July 2005 London bombings, also known as 7 / 7.

It has been noted that secret defence and intelligence links ' that minimal impact on ordinary people a disproportionate role in the transatlantic friendship ', and perspectives on the special relationship differ.

Other subplots included the initiation of arrogant chief of surgery Dr. Stegman into the secret society known as the ' Keepers ', and the challenged-at-every-turn flirtation between young Dr. Elmer Traff and sleep doctor Lona Massingale.

This, however, is mystical and most secret, ' which no one knows except him who receives it ', no one receives except him who desires it, and no one desires except him who is penetrated to the marrow by the fire of the Holy Spirit, whom Christ sent into the world.

Included on many models was a secret label that would show only after the Boglin was heated and left to cool, this was supposed to be their ' secret code ', part of the toys ' storyline.

* ' Snows Farm Nature Reserve – A secret valley paradise for wildlife and people ', ( undated ), Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

Isabella also appears to have made a secret agreement with the Scots for the duration of the forthcoming campaign.

Cryptography, cryptanalysis, and secret agent / courier betrayal featured in the Babington plot during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I which led to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The committee employed secret agents abroad, conducted covert operations, devised codes and ciphers, funded propaganda activities, authorized the opening of private mail, acquired foreign publications for use in analysis, established a courier system, and developed a maritime capability apart from that of the Continental Navy, and engaged in regular communications with Britons and Scots who sympathized with the American cause.

In this he played Sir Francis Walsingham, head of Elizabeth's secret service, and a noted Puritan, whose work exposed the Babington Plot which led to the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

His smile was quick, and his eyes held some promised secret that made my knees go limp.

Serbia refused to cede a part of the territories in Macedonia, which it occupied and promised to give to Bulgaria according to a secret agreement.

Under the secret Treaty of London signed in April 1915, Triple Entente powers promised Italy that it would gain Vlorë ( Valona ) and nearby lands and a protectorate over Albania in exchange for entering the war against Austria-Hungary.

When the question of satisfying the investors came up, Gutenberg is said to have promised to share a " secret ".

Her central myth served as the context for the secret rites of regeneration at Eleusis, which promised immortality to initiates.

It was an open secret that the two had an arrangement, whereby as long as he promised not to seek a divorce, Preminger was free to see other women.

By 1702, Victor Amadeus was considering changing allegiance to the emperor again having entered secret correspondence with the emperor who promised him the Duchy of Montferrat.

Next year, he schemed with leading nobles ( including the King's brother, the duc d ' Orléans ) to raise a rebellion ; he also signed a secret agreement with the King of Spain, who promised to aid the rebels.

It was all lies, what they promised us " ( unemployed person ); " I thought it was going to be just like 1984, when the vote was not secret and there was not all these observers around " ( market vendor ); " Don ’ t you believe those lies fraud, I voted my conscience and my principles, and so did everyone else I know " ( young mother ); " the Sandinistas have mocked and abused the people, and now we have given our vote to opposition UNO " ( ex-Sandinista officer ).

Armatus, as magister militum, was sent with all available forces in Asia Minor, to oppose the advancing army of the Isaurians, but secret messages from Zeno, who promised to give him the title of magister militum for life and to confer the rank of Caesar on his son, induced him to betray his master.

The documents cited Khalid saying that, if Osama bin Laden is captured or killed by the Coalition of the Willing, an al-Qaeda sleeper cell will detonate a " weapon of mass destruction " in a " secret location " in Europe, and promised it would be " a nuclear hellstorm ".

Some notable Winchell quotes are: " Nothing recedes like success ", and " I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret ".

On 8 August, made confident by the secret talks with Canaris, Franco presented extravagant terms for his cooperation to the German Ambassador to Spain, Eberhard von Stohrer ; he said that he would only join Hitler if Spain were promised Gibraltar and French Morocco.

At a secret meeting on 23 October with U. S. General Mark W. Clark and diplomat Robert Murphy, the invasion was agreed on, but the Americans promised only that Giraud would be in command " as soon as possible ".

In 1615, Bethlen was also officially recognized by the Emperor Matthias as the Prince of Transylvania ; Bethlen promised in secret that he would help the Habsburgs against the Ottomans.

To facilitate his plans for a coup against the Prussian government and to avert the danger of a general strike which had defeated the Kapp Putsch of 1920, Schleicher had a series of secret meetings with trade union leaders, during which he promised them a leading role in the new authoritarian political system he was building, in return for which he received a promise that there would be no general strike in support of Braun.

Although the Arab forces were promised a state that included much of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France provided for the territorial division of much of that region between the two imperial powers.

England was forced to sign the treaty as Parliament would not allow more money to be spent on the war and had become aware of the secret Treaty of Dover in which Charles had promised Louis XIV of France to convert to Catholicism at an opportune moment.

Himmler described the project as a " secret Reich matter ", meaning that " no one was allowed to speak about these matters with any person and that everyone promised upon his life to keep the utmost secrecy ".

Lori, in turn, revealed that thanks to her people's telepathic powers, she knew that he was really Superman all along, but promised to keep the knowledge of his identity a secret.

The Open Door Policy had been further weakened by a series of secret treaties ( 1917 ) between Japan and the Allies, which promised Japan the German possessions in China on successful conclusion of World War I.

Gillespie said that a polygraph would suffice, and he promised to arrange one in secret to avoid the growing media circus.

After a bitter struggle the Wolfriders temporarily defeated Winnowill, and the Gliders ' leader Lord Voll, no longer in thrall to her, promised to take the Wolfriders to the lost Palace of the High Ones, where they would learn once and for all the secret of their origins.

Though Ariel made no secret of her alien origins, she withheld the true nature of her mission from most of her teammates, except for the apparently powerless Chance, whom Ariel promised an undisclosed payment in exchange for Chance's assistance.