Annals of the persecution in Scotland

A detailed chronicle traces the religious strife in Scotland from the Restoration through the events leading to the Revolution, recounting the rollback of Presbyterian structures, the imposition of episcopacy, and the legal and extra‑legal measures used to suppress dissenting ministers and conventicles. It situates those events in a longer Reformation context, narrates parliamentary acts, trials, executions, banishments, and grassroots resistance, and examines divisions within the Presbyterian movement. The account combines documentary summaries, biographical sketches of prosecuted clergy and lay sufferers, and commentary on political maneuvering to explain how state power and religious conviction collided and produced a period of sustained persecution.