Posted on 05/14/2005 8:13:49 AM PDT by gobucks
The Beggar's Summons was a document that appeared on New Years Day Morning, 1559, on every church door in Scotland. It basically told the Roman Catholic Church, (in Scotland, as most of Europe, the RC church was the only legal chruch for hundreds of years), that their days were over and to get out by Easter.
John Knox returned from exile shortly thereafter, and within 1.5 years, which saw the defeat of French Roman Catholic armed invasion, the Priests were evicted and the Pope disavowed.
The Presbryterians took over. Scotland was utterly transformed. All RC Churches became 'Kirks'.
But, the Beggar's Summons document ... that is a puzzle. Where did it come from? Who wrote it? What organization, evidently secret, was in place such that all RC institutions found nailed to their gates this document on the same date? Why on the internet is their virtually nothing about this?
And why care? Well, the answer is connected to the word 'Covenant', which is connected to the word 'Federal', which is disconnected from just about everything in our government that still carries the label 'Republic'. I'm just seeking a bit of additional orientation, and the origin of this Beggar's Summons ... it is just about as odd as the Peasant's Revolt in England for some of its details...
That's the one ... about a third of the way done.
I am pretty pleased with how it is put together, and it certainly gives me a background regarding the 'troubles' in Ireland, a background that I should have received while in pulik skool....but noooooo just one more hole in the screen the thoughtful educrats provided me when I was young, trusting and deeply stupid... (oh boy, don't have time to rant like I would like, b/c I gotta go to a concert)
ping
Beggars Summons, interesting history discussion
And the Catholic Church run the hospitals, shelters, houses for the elderly etc ... Henry the Eighth and yhe Calvinists together with Henry the VIII were the first modern freemarketeers and privatizers.
The reverse Robin Hoods - the foreruners of Khodorkovsky and Enron.
Thank you for the interesting (though gruresome) links. St. Nicholas Owen was a man far larger than his stature, it seems.
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