Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan mutuwar Cromwell da kuma rushewar mulkin, Charles II ya dawo a 1660 kuma Scotland ta sake zama masarauta mai zaman kanta. Scotland ta dawo da tsarin dokokinta, majalisa da kirk, amma kuma Lords of Articles (wanda kambi ya gudanar da majalisa), bishops da sarki wanda bai ziyarci kasar ba. Ya yi mulki ba tare da yin la'akari da majalisar ba, ta hanyar kwamishinoni. Waɗannan sun fara da John, Earl na Middleton kuma sun ƙare da ɗan'uwan sarki da magaji, James, Duke na York (wanda aka sani a Scotland a matsayin Duke na Albany). Dokar Kula da Jiragen Ruwa ta Ingila ta hana 'yan Scots yin kasuwanci da ƙasashen da Ingila ta mallaka. Maido da episcopacy ya zama tushen matsala, musamman a kudu maso yammacin ƙasar, wani yanki da ke da ƙaƙƙarfan ra'ayi na Presbyterian. Da suka yi watsi da cocin da aka kafa, yawancin mazaunan suka soma halartar tarurruka na waje da ba bisa doka ba, da ake kira conventicles. Official yunkurin murkushe wadannan ya haifar da wani tashin hankali a 1679, ya ci nasara da James, Duke na Monmouth, da Sarki ba bisa doka ba dan, a Battle of Bothwell Bridge
Ka yi haƙuri. A farkon 1680s wani lokaci mafi tsanani na tsanantawa ya fara, daga baya za a kira "Killing Time". Sa'ad da Charles ya mutu a shekara ta 1685 kuma ɗan'uwansa, Roman Katolika, ya gaje shi a matsayin James na VII na Scotland (da na II na Ingila), al'amura suka yi tsanani.