Covenanter persecution known as the Killing Times

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The Covenanter persecution known as the Killing Times was a brutal period of state and royalist repression in late 17th-century Scotland, marked by executions, imprisonments, and violent crackdowns on Presbyterian dissenters who resisted imposed episcopal church governance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Covenanter persecution
historical event
period of religious persecution
characterizedBy imprisonment and transportation of dissenters
military repression
outlawing of conventicles
summary executions
use of torture in interrogations
consequence long‑term hostility to episcopacy in parts of Scotland
martyr tradition in Scottish Presbyterianism
strengthening of Covenanter identity
country Kingdom of Scotland
endCause Glorious Revolution
overthrow of James VII and II
endTime 1688
hasCause imposition of episcopal church governance in Scotland
refusal of Covenanters to accept royal supremacy over the church
restoration religious settlement under Charles II
legalBasis acts of the Scottish Parliament enforcing episcopacy
royal proclamations against conventicles
location Scotland
mainLocation Ayrshire
Dumfriesshire
Galloway
Lanarkshire
South‑west Scotland
linked to: southwest Scotland
notableEvent drumhead courts‑martial of suspected Covenanters
execution of the Wigtown Martyrs
military occupation of the south‑west by the Highland Host
notableVictim Donald Cargill
James Renwick
John Brown of Priesthill
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret Wilson
Richard Cameron
opposedBy Presbyterian dissenters
Scottish Covenanters
partOf Covenanter persecution
Scottish Covenanters' struggle
perpetrator Highland Host
Scottish Privy Council
Stuart monarchy
linked to: Stuart period

dragoons under John Graham of Claverhouse
government troops
officers loyal to the Duke of York (later James VII and II)
royalist authorities in Scotland
religiousConflict Presbyterianism vs episcopacy
religiousGroupTargeted Scottish Presbyterians
field‑preaching Covenanters
rememberedAs symbol of state persecution of religious dissent in Scotland
startTime 1679

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Scottish Covenanters causeOf Covenanter persecution known as the Killing Times
Killing Times partOf Covenanter persecution
linked to: Covenanter persecution known as the Killing Times
Richard Cameron participantIn Killing Time (persecution of Covenanters)
linked to: Covenanter persecution known as the Killing Times
Donald Cargill participantIn Covenanter field conventicles
linked to: Covenanter persecution known as the Killing Times