A large armed conventicle was held at Skeoch Hill in Galloway in 1678, with thousands of worshippers attending under armed guard. This was one of the largest and most provocative of the field conventicles that preceded the Bothwell Bridge rising. Government forces did not attack the Skeoch Hill gathering, recognising that a force capable of dispersing it would be too large for normal policing. The scale of the conventicle alarmed the government into precipitating the crisis that led to Bothwell Bridge.
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