George Wishart, Protestant martyr, being led to his execution, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 1 March 1546
Illustration by William Henry Margetson (1861-1940) from a history of the Scottish People published in 1893. Info from wiki: George Wishart (c. 1513 – 1 March 1546) was a Scottish religious reformer and Protestant martyr. His career as an itinerant preacher began in 1544, from when he traveled Scotland from east to west. At Ormiston in East Lothian, in January 1546, he was seized by Lord Bothwell on the orders of Cardinal Beaton, taken to Elphinstone Castle, and transferred by order of the privy council to Edinburgh castle on 19 January 1546. Thence he was handed over to Beaton, who had a "show trial", with John Lauder prosecuting Wishart. He was hanged on a gibbet and his body burned[3] at St Andrews on 1 March 1546. Foxe and Knox attribute to him a prophecy of the death of the Cardinal, who was assassinated on 29 May following, partly in revenge for Wishart's death.
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