1 March 1546 A.D. John Foxe's Account: Mr. (Rev.) George Wishart, Church of Scotland, Burned at the Stake
1 March 1546 A.D. Mr. (Rev.) George Wishart, Church of Scotland, Burned at the Stake. Foxe, John. “George Wishart.” Book of Martyrs. 1899. http://www.tracts.ukgo.com/george_wishart.html . Accessed Apr 25, 2014. GEORGE WISHART Scottish Protestant Reformer, martyred in 1546AD. Engraved from the original in Glasgow University [Scanned from "The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography" (14 volumes), John Francis Waller (Editor), published by William Mackenzie (no date given but this revised edition completed about 1878-1880AD)] GEORGE WISHART , the Scottish martyr, was the son of a country gentleman, the laird of Pittarrow in Mearns, and was born about the beginning of the sixteenth century. Nothing is known of his early years. He first appears as a teacher of Greek at Montrose; but he was soon obliged to leave the country, in consequence of a threatened prosecution by Hepburn, bishop of Brechin, f...