…THE KILLING TIME
hen Scottish presbyterians looked back from the vantage-point of the 18th century on the reigns of Charles II (1660-85) and James VII (1685-89), they tended to view the entire period as one of brutal repression against their co-religionists. And, as they catalogued the litany of atrocities they considered to have been visited on presbyterians, they also developed a stark and emotive phrase to describe it all: the ‘killing
