 Complete the following phrase:  Support was widespread except in Aberdeenshire and Banff, heartland of Royalist and Episcopalian resistance for the next 60 years. The Marquess of Argyll and six other members of the Scottish Privy Council had backed the Covet; Charles tried to impose his authority in the 1639 and 1640 Bishops Wars, with his defeat leaving the Coveters in control of Scotland. When the First English Civil War began in 1642, the Scots remained neutral at first but sent troops to Ulster to support their co-religionists in the 