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3 unusual facts about George Wishart


Alexander Crichton of Brunstane

He argued that the priest and master of arts and Protestant preacher George Wishart would not simply be called "Wishart" in the correspondence, and suggested the messenger was a young man, John, eldest son of John Wishart of Carnbeg.

George Wishart

At Ormiston in East Lothian, in January 1546, he was seized by the Earl of 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.

He belonged to a younger branch of the Wisharts of Pitarrow near Fordoun.



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