Greyfriars Kirk, today Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk, is a parish kirk (church) of the Church of Scotland in central Edinburgh, Scotland. The kirk stands on the site of a pre-Reformation establishment of the Franciscan order, the "Grey Friars". At the SE corner of Greyfriars Kirkyard was the Covenanter's Prison. This gated section (now section 10 of the churchyard) was used in 1679 as a prison for over one thousand supporters of the National Covenant who had been defeated by Government forces at the battle of Bothwell Brig on 22 June. The area behind the gate was laid out for burials in 1705 and contains many fine monuments, but these did not exist at the time of the prison.