The execution of the Wigtown Martyrs in May 1685 was the most notorious act of the Killing Time. Two women, Margaret McLachlan and Margaret Wilson, were tied to stakes in the tidal estuary of the River Bladnoch at Wigtown and drowned as the tide came in for refusing to renounce the Covenant. The drowning of the Wigtown Martyrs became a defining symbol of government tyranny in the Covenanting tradition.
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