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The Pentland Rising of 1666 Government response to the rising was initially traditional. In addition to mobilising troops under General Dalziel. the privy council ordered local heritors in the disaffected areas of the southwest as well as the earl of Lothian to defend their own localities and suppress the insurrection. But this conventional solution had to be abandoned when it became evident that the degree of anti-government sentiment in the country had been underestimated. Moreover, it soon became apparent too that heritors in the west who were largely sympathetic to the rebels' case could not be relied on to suppress the uprising. Therefore, a general muster of fencible men was called on 19 ovember in the eastern shires from the Meams in the north to the south-eastern Borders wherecovenanting sentiment was thought to be weaker. As a result, the Pentland Rising saw the lowlands split regionally between the west and east with anti-and pro-government forces emerging from these parts of Scotland respectively. , , , , kms 0 25 50 75 100 , ,, , , , 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles ® Site of public execution (with number of rebels hanged) t Suspected rebel o Special security precautions enacted Shires where troops quartered Shires where arms, ammuniton and horses confiscated Aftermath and repercussions MS 146

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