History of Modern Times From the Fall of Constantinople to the French Revolutio

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History of Modern Times From the Fall of Constantinople to the French Revolutio
Victor Duruy
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Persecution was certain, as in the Netherlands and everywhere, to bring about plots and the horrible war which we shall soon have to narrate.
From France Calvinism had passed into Scotland, a coun- try with which France had intimate relations, and where its progress was facilitated by the natural disposition of the peo- ple and the feebleness of the government.
After the premature death of James V. (1542) his widow, Mary of Guise, proclaimed regent in the name of her daughter, Mary Stuart, had
...left the direction of affairs to Cardinal Beaton, an able statesman, but of a character harsh even to cruelty. Numerous executions were ordered by him on the score of religion. None excited general indig- nation to a greater degree than that of George Wishart, burned alive under the eyes of the cardinal. The Reform party to avenge the death of their co-religionist assassinated Beaton, whose body they hung to the battlements of the castle of St. Andrews (1546).
From that time the Reformation was propagated in Scot- land with rapidity, although combated by the regent, sister i8o REVOLUTION IN INTERESTS.


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