page_title: The Killing Time
hierarchical_section_title: The Killing Time
caption_attribution_description: English: Wood engraving depicting the Scottish martyr Margaret Wilson, tied to a stake in the Solway, because, as a Covenanter, refusing to acknowledge James II as head of the church. Drawn by John Everett Millais, engraved by the workshop of Joseph Swain. Published in Once a Week, volume 7, page 42. The caption in the magazine reads: 'See Lord Macaulay's History of England, vol. i., page 501. Margaret Wilson's epitaph, from Woodrow, in the Church yard of Wigton, is as follows: Murdered for owning Christ supreme / Head of his Church, and no more crime / But her not owning Prelacy, / And not abjuring Presbytery; / Within the sea, tied to a stake, / She suffered for Christ Jesu’s sake.' 日本語: カヴェナンターの殉教者
context_page_description: The Killing Time was a period of conflict in Scottish history between the Presbyterian Covenanter movement, based largely in the south west of the country, and the government forces of Kings Charles II and James VII. The period, roughly from 1680 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.
context_section_description: The Killing Time was a period of conflict in Scottish history between the Presbyterian Covenanter movement, based largely in the south west of the country, and the government forces of Kings Charles II and James VII. The period, roughly from 1680 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.
caption: Margaret Wilson, one of the 'Wigtown Martyrs', executed by drowning in the incoming tide of the Solway Firth (1685).
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