The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . into a pool of water. George Wishart, a popular reformed preacher,returned to Scotland in the end of 1544. He wassupported by the Earls of CassilHs and Glencairn, theLairds of Brunston, Ormiston, and Calder, who weredeeply in league with Henry VHL, and were plottingthe murder of Cardinal Beaton ; but the evidence isnot conclusive that Wishart was implicated in theplot. On the i6th of January, 1546, Wishart waspreaching in Haddington, accompanied by JohnKnox. That same night he was apprehended atOrmiston by the Earl of Bo
The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . into a pool of water. George Wishart, a popular reformed preacher,returned to Scotland in the end of 1544. He wassupported by the Earls of CassilHs and Glencairn, theLairds of Brunston, Ormiston, and Calder, who weredeeply in league with Henry VHL, and were plottingthe murder of Cardinal Beaton ; but the evidence isnot conclusive that Wishart was implicated in theplot. On the i6th of January, 1546, Wishart waspreaching in Haddington, accompanied by JohnKnox. That same night he was apprehended atOrmiston by the Earl of Bothwell, and conveyedfirst to Edinburgh and shortly after to St. was tried for heresy on the 28th of February,condemned, and executed on the nth of burning of this man aroused a deep feeling inthe popular mind, and many ventured to say that theywould not suffer the life of innocent men to be takenaway. The Cardinal had endeavoured to strengthen hisposition by the old custom of bonds with the nobles,the Scotch faction opposed to his policy were dis-. HOUSE OF CARDINAL BEATON. 122 THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND. credited, and he was secure on the side of passed through Fife, and attended the marriageof one of his natural daughters at Finhaven enjoying himself, tidings came that Henry waspreparing to invade Scotland, and he hurried hometo put his castle in a defensive state. At that verytime his enemies had matured their plot to murderhim. He was living in his castle of St. Andrews, andhad a number of men engaged in repairing it. Earlyon the morning of the 29th of May, 1546, NormanLesly and other two men slipped into the were followed by James Melville and otherthree, who asked an interview with the Cardinal, andimmediately after the Laird of Grange approachedwith eight armed men. This roused the suspicion ofthe porter at the gate, but he was instantly stabbedand cast into the ditch, and in a few minutes theparty were within the w
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