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SLG
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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject: Cardinal Beaton |
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I'd never heard of him before, but an interesting letter in the Herald.
| Quote: | Your Saturday news story of the permanent repatriation to Scotland of the Dunkeld Lectern brightened my weekend enormously. The lectern is an icon of independent Scottish statehood almost as powerful as the Stone of Scone itself.
It was removed in May, 1544, when an English army arrived by sea at Leith under the instructions of King Henry VIII to "put all to fyre and sworde, burne Edinborough town . . . so it may remayn forever a perpetuel memory of the vengence of God . . . for their faulsehode and disloyailtye . . . over throwe the castle, sack Holyrod house."
The cause of Henry's fury was the decision of Scotland's chancellor, Cardinal David Beaton, to back out of the Treaty of Greenwich. This treaty was for the marriage of the infant Queen Mary when she was 10 years old to Henry's son, the future King Edward VI. It would have resulted in the incorporation of Scotland into England one-and-a-half centuries before it did.
Exactly two years later Cardinal Beaton was murdered. Although his name has been caught up in the bitter rhetoric and polemic of the subsequent Reformation period, the murder was related mainly to Henry's ambitions in Scotland and not to religion. Beaton was arguably the greatest Scottish patriot since Wallace and Bruce. Perhaps it will not too be long before his memory is repatriated also.
Alan Clayton, Westfield, Letters Way, Strathlachlan, Strachur, Argyll. |
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azzuri
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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As they say - history is written by 'the winners' - therefore not really a surprise you have never heard of him.
And no, I've never heard of him either.
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