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4 unusual facts about Scottish Reformation


Ancient university governance in Scotland

Following the Protestant reformation, the previous position became inevitably untenable.

Scottish Reformation

Parliamentary hostility meant there was no question of any Act of Uniformity as in England.

In the 1540s Henry sought a treaty for the marriage of his infant son Edward to the infant Mary (by then Queen of Scots): the regent, Arran, approved this match in August 1543 (by the Treaties of Greenwich).

Protestant preachers fleeing Marian persecutions in England brought with them Edward VI's second Book of Common Prayer (of 1552), which was commended by the Lords of the Congregation.


Centre for Theology and Public Issues

From December 2009 to January 2010 CTPI co-sponsored a series of six lectures on the influence of John Calvin and the Reformation in Scotland.

Clan MacLellan

The castle's beginnings lie in the Reformation of 1560 which led to the abandonment of the Convent of Greyfriars which had stood on the site now occupied by the castle since 1449.

James Croft

He was made governor of Berwick upon Tweed, where he was visited by John Knox and James MacGill in 1559, and where he busied himself actively on behalf of the Scottish Protestants.

Nicolas de Pellevé

Nicolas was an agent of Francis I of France and Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland from October 1559 to 15 July 1560 during the Scottish Reformation.


see also

John Cockburn

John Cockburn of Ormiston (died 1583), supporter of the Scottish Reformation

Longniddry

John Knox, main figure in the Scottish Reformation and disciple of John Calvin spent significant time in Longniddry as tutor to the sons of the Douglas family who lived at the west side of the village.