[tumblindice]

When the Mother Church excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570, it was basically telling their faithful it didn’t have a problem with her getting whacked.
Liz’s religious tolerance grew strained as the fatwah intensified and, yeah, she put what she perceived to be traitors to death, often drawing and quartering, privy parts cut off, etc.
Including the principal character of this thread, Mary ‘Queen of Scots.’

But from her Pop’s reign to Charles II, about 300 Catholics were executed, most by beheading and hanging. Mary killed that many reformist/Lutheran ‘heretics’ in her reign alone, most by burning.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"But from her Pop’s reign to Charles II, about 300 Catholics were executed, most by beheading and hanging. Mary killed that many reformist/Lutheran ‘heretics’ in her reign alone, most by burning."

Please...To claim your side killed a handful mercifully is disingenuous. Both sides killed far more than 300.

[marsh2]

My ancestor, Thomas Cramner was one of those burned at the stake during Mary’s reign.