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GEORGE WISHART (c. 1513-1546)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 753 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, and taught as a schoolmaster at See also:Montrose . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 VIII. vol. xix. pt. i., Introd. pp. See also:xxvii-See also:xxviii) . 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 . 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 . 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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place to place in peril of his life denouncing the errors of See also:Rome and the abuses in the See also:church at Montrose, Dundee, See also:Ayr, in Kyle, at See also:Perth, See also:Edinburgh, See also:Leith, See also:Haddington and elsewhere . 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 of the privy See also:council to Edinburgh See also:castle on See also:January 19, 1546 . Thence he was handed over to Cardinal Beaton, who had him burnt at St See also:Andrews on See also:March 1 . 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 . 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) . (A . F .

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