See also:GEORGE See also:WISHART (c. 1513-1546)
, Scottish reformer, See also:born about 1513, belonged to a younger See also:branch of the \Visharts of Pitarrow
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His See also:early See also:life has been the subject of many conjectures; but apparently he graduated M.A., probably at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, and taught as a schoolmaster at See also:Montrose
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Accusedof See also:heresy in 1538, he fled to See also:England, where a similar See also:charge was brought against him at See also:Bristol in the following See also:year
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In 1539 or 1540 he started for See also:Germany and See also:Switzerland, and returning to England became a member of Corpus Christi College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge
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In 1543 he went to See also:Scotland in the See also:train of a Scottish See also:embassy which had come to See also:London to consider the treaty of See also:marriage between See also:Prince See also:Edward and the See also:infant See also:queen of Scots
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There has been much controversy whether he was the See also:Wishart who in See also:April 1544 approached the See also:English See also:government with a proposal for getting rid of See also:Cardinal See also:Beaton
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See also:Roman See also:Catholic historians such as Bellesheim, and Anglicans like See also:Canon See also:Dixon, have accepted the See also:identification, while See also:Froude does not dispute it and Dr See also:Gairdner avoids committing himself (Letters and Papers of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. vol. xix. pt. i., Introd. pp. See also:xxvii-See also:xxviii)
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There was another See also:George Wishart, bailie of See also:Dundee, who allied himself with Beaton's murderers; and See also:Sir See also:John Wishart (d
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1576), afterwards a Scottish See also:judge, has also claims to the doubtful distinction
.
Sir John was certainly a friend of See also:Creighton, See also:laird of Branston, who was deeply implicated in the See also:plot, but Creighton also befriended the reformer during his evangelical labours in Midlothian
.
The See also:case against the reformer is not proven and is not probable
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His career as a preacher began in 1544, and the See also:story has been told in glowing See also:colours by his See also:disciple John See also:Knox
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He went from See also:place to place in peril of his life denouncing the errors of See also:Rome and the abuses in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at Montrose, Dundee, See also:Ayr, in Kyle, at See also:Perth, See also:Edinburgh, See also:Leith, See also:Haddington and elsewhere
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At Ormiston, in See also:December 1545, he was seized by the See also:earl of See also:Bothwell, and transferred by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the privy See also:council to Edinburgh See also:castle on See also:January 19, 1546
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Thence he was handed over to Cardinal Beaton, who had him burnt at St See also:Andrews on See also:March 1
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See also:Foxe and Knox attribute to him a prophecy of the See also:death of the Cardinal, who was assassinated on May 29 following, partly at any See also:rate in revenge for Wishart's death
.
Knox's Hist.; Reg
.
P.C
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Scotland; Foxe's Acts and Monuments; See also:Hay See also:Fleming's Martyrs and Confessors of St Andrews; Cramond's Truth about Wishart (1898) ; and See also:Diet. of Nat
.
Biogr. vol. lxii
.
(248-251, 253-254)
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