Ratification of divorce and declaration on the succession. Extract from Foxes Monuments. Ed Rev Geo. Townsend (1846) vol 5 p 67-8. A Table of Degrees, prohibited by God’s Law to marry The son not to marry the mothernor stepmother. The brother not to marry the sister. The father not to marry his son’s daughter, nor […]
Parliamentary Reforms Parliament met infrequently and that in 1529 was after a lapse of seven years. But time having passed, so also had the criticisms of the church gathered pace while the church continued to harass protestants, Lollards, Wyckcliffians, Lutherans, and just about anybody who dared to stand against them. The fires of martyrdom continued […]
Glossary (continued). Mummeris-Regardand Regentrie-Stay Steik-Wardit Wark-Yule. Supplementary glossary of phrases, terms etc.
Dean Colet, of St Pauls Cathedral (1467-1519) Dr John Colet was the son of Sir Henry Colet of Wendover, a member of the Mercers Guild and twice Lord Mayor of London. John was the sole surviving child of an allegedly very large family of ten sons and ten daughters. Coming from a reasonably well off […]
The Papal Bull 23 March 1534. The Effect in English of Pope Clement’s Sentence definitive, against the Divorce of Queen Katherine. Translation from Foxes Monuments, Ed Rev Geo. Townsend,(1846) vol 5 p 658. The effect of this sentence is as much as to mean in English, that ” pope Clement VII. with the consent of […]
THE CAMERONIAN`s DREAM. Called by Wodrow ” The Vision: A Poem on the Slaughter of Mr Richard Cameron and Others at Airsmoss, written by an ” Ayrshire Shepherd Lad.” It first appeared in the Edinburgh Magazine in 1821 when the author, James Hyslop, had charge of a school in Greenock. He was a school master […]
Miles Coverdale (1486-1568). Miles Coverdale became an eminent puritan divine and probably the foremost translator of the Scriptures into English. But like many of his time, was first an Augustinian monk. He was born in Yorkshire in 1486 and educated at Cambridge university, after which he became a monk. He then appears in Tubingen in […]
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) Thomas Cranmer was born 2 July 1489 at Aslacton, Nottinghamshire. His father was an honest country gentleman who spent most of his time in sports of hunting, fishing, hawking, and military exercises. From him the boy learnt how to ride, hunt with a hawk, fish, use a bow, and generally to exercise […]
Thomas Wolsey ( 1471-1530 ) Thomas Wolsey was the son of a butcher in Ipswich who made his way through Oxford before gaining the support of Sir Richard Nanfan, treasurer of Calais, to obtain employment as King Henry`s almoner. But ambition drove Wolsey to seek the friendship of those around the king. These included the […]
Notes from “The Kirk above Dee Water, Rev H M B Reid (1895). The Last words of the Rev Mr John Macmillan on his death bed, November 1753” .. Prayer being ended, he inquired where that word was, ‘Yea, mine own God is He ?’ and being told it was the last line of the […]
Edinburgh Castle – a Legacy and a Memorial St Michael, carving suspended from the roof. Most people of Scottish origin will have seen the towering edifice of Edinburgh Castle either in photographs, travel magazines when planning the trip to the ancestral home or on film or television when the Edinburgh Tattoo is taking place. But […]
Local Taxation, an emerging fact of life in the burgeoning towns. One of the hard lessons that had to be learnt by the people from the seventeenth century onwards, was that everything has its price. They knew full well of old that taxes were necessary to pay for defence and war and had discharged their […]
Denmark In Denmark, Chrisdtopher II was exiled and succeeded by his uncle, Frederick Duke of Schleswig Holstein in 1523. Before then, in 1520 there was a flurry for the reformation stemming from a Carmelite monk, Paul Elia, who had heard Luther`s doctrines and attempted some reform . He was followed by Petrus Parvus who had […]
Scottish Emigration For nearly 400 years there has been a stream of emigrants leaving Glasgow and other ports in the west of Scotland for destinations overseas. In the early seventeenth century the majority were headed for the Plantation of Ulster, while a few were sailing to the continent, and a handful to the Nova Scotia […]