Note 1315 — XXVII. CALVINISM.
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Knox, p. 130.—Calderwood I. 337 sqq.—Burnet vol. II. The implacable character of Scottish persecution is aptly illustrated by a proclamation issued by Cardinal Beatoun in 1540 for the purpose of spiting Sir Ralph Sadler, the English envoy at Edinburgh. It was during Lent, and the proclamation declared “that whosoever should buy an egg or eat an egg within those dioceses should forfeit no less than his body to be burnt as a heretic, and all his goods confiscate to the king”—Froude, Hist. Engl. IV. 54.
It was a life and death struggle, in which quarter could neither be asked nor given.