[MR] Wikipedia: Scottish Reformation

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Noble Friends, Especially Fellow Scots,

On 17 August 1560, the Scottish Parliament adopted a Protestant 
Confession and officially repudiated Catholicism. Reformation pressures 
had been building for many years in Scotland, but they were brought to a 
head by the 1546 martyrdom of George Wishart and the unpopular 
French-backed regency of Mary of Guise. Although Scottish Protestantism 
was somewhat abetted by England, and was heavily influenced by 
Lutheranism and the ideas of John Hus, it was the Calvinist preacher 
John Knox who became the leading thinker of the Scottish reformation. 
His brand of Calvinism was established as the National Kirk, which 
became the the most important root of the modern Presbyterian movement. 
You can read more about Protestantism in Scotland here: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Reformation

Another important Scottish Protestant theorist and writer was John 
Napier of Merchiston (1550-1617). He was also the inventor of 
logarithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier . John Napier was 
head of the Edinburgh branch of the Napier family, making him my real 
35th cousin, or something like that.

Yours Aye,


Lord Mungo Napier (Who never got logarithms, but was a whiz with a 
circular slide rule)