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To: Repeal The 17th

I have Scottish Presbyterian ancestry. A distant cousin, Rev Geotge Wishart was burned at the stake by Cardinal Beaton at the direction of Mary Queen of Scots. Partly because QE1 liked my cousin, a fellow Protestant reformer


3 posted on 07/04/2025 11:22:49 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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Wow, related to George Wishart, how about that? That’s amazing - probably one of the two most important martyrs of the Scottish Reformation.

Cardinal Beaton indeed had him killed, which led directly to Beaton’s grisly end only a couple of months later. But I don’t think you can blame Mary - she was only 3 at the time.


7 posted on 07/04/2025 11:55:38 AM PDT by Burma Jones
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