Killing Times
Troops ambushed in Covenanter rescue attempt 
June 20, 1688
Covenanter activists today ambushed a company of soldiers in a bid to free one of their ministers.
Nine Covenanters dead, five arrested after bloody encounter on rainswept land near Muirkirk
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Two Covenanters face Cumnock Firing Squad
TWO men have been shot in Cumnock for attending a proscribed religious meeting while news emerges of further killing in the hills.
Soldiers hunt down known Covenanters
Two innocent farmers are shot dead when caught reading their Bible
Battle rages at Drumclog: Forces clash on marshy land
Around 40 men dead - King’s man Graham escapes with his life
IT’S amazing to think that the introduction of a simple religious book could have led to one of the bloodiest periods of Scottish history. Yet that’s exactly what happened in 1637 when King Charles I tried to overturn years of Scottish Presbyterianism by decreeing that the Book of Common Prayer should be used in Kirk services.
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