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By David R Ross
In 1638, almost everyone was a Covenanter. Fifty years later, they were a “Remnant”, their great manifesto irrelevant and half-forgotten. In 1685 the government began a draconian campaign against them, which they called, not without reason “The Killing Time”.
The government of Scotland made it legal for soldiers to summarily shoot civilians without any form of trial. seventy-eight people were executed and the policy remains notorious.
Yet the decades before and after were far more deserving of the name. In the struggle to define what Scotland stood for, thousands perished. One of the victims was nationhood.
