Free Church of Scotland, an ecclesiastical body formed by those who left the Established Church in 1843 on the ground that they were not free in their connection with the State to enforce certain obligations which they considered lay on them as a Church of Christ, to whom, and not to the State, they held themselves as a Church subject.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Frederikshald * Free Cities of Germany