Topic summary
The Killing Time
Covenanters (Presbyterians)
Privy Council(Episcopalians and monarchy)- James VII(King of Scotland, 1685–88)
- Charles II(King of Scotland until 1685)
- The Earl of Perth(Lord Chancellor, 1684–89)
- The Earl of Aberdeen(Lord Chancellor, 1682–84)
- The Duke of Rothes(Lord Chancellor, 1664–81)
- George Mackenzie(Lord Advocate, 1677–87)
- Viscount Dundee
The Killing Time was a period of conflict in Scottish history between the PresbyterianCovenanter movement, based largely in the southwest of the country, and the government forces of Kings Charles II and James VII. The period, roughly from 1679 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, was subsequently called The Killing Time by Robert Wodrow in his The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, published in 1721–22. It is an important episode in the martyrology of the Church of Scotland.