David Beacon Quotes
I am a priest, I am a priest; you will not slay me!
They killed him immediately after. The Cardinal had overthrown Scottish liberties, and tortured and murdered Protestants. Three months earlier, he had burned at the stake George Wishart, a very popular Reformer. In the history of religious persecution between Protestants and Catholics each group wreaked vengeance on innocent members of the other group while the murderers generally remained safe in their positions of power. In this case however, friends of Wishart broke into the Cardinal’s castle and executed Beacon. They hanged his naked body by one ankle out of the window, facing the place where George Wishart had been murdered.
David Beacon, 1494-1546, Scottish Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of St. Andrews & Chancellor of Scotland, Statement to his accosters, 1546.
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