Three hundred and forty-one years ago, on the 11th of May, two women were executed. They were Covenanters - Christians who held to the principles of the Scottish Reformation and often had to sacrifice their own lives rather than compromise their beliefs. Captured and refusing to recant, Widow Margaret McLachlan and her young friend Margaret Wilson were drowned. Nineteen-year old Margaret Wilson is recorded to have sung Psalms and recited Scripture aloud as she waited for the
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