Kate Forsyth
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163 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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If you were a devout Catholic, you would have been living in secrecy and you would have been in fear of your life.
So if you were noble, you might have had a secret chapel, you might have had a priest's hall where priests would come and say the Mass for you.
Usually Jesuit priests were smuggled from house to house and were kept in disguise and
and you would have been living a double life.
For example, if you were accused of fornication, you as a young woman would be stripped to your shift, like your underwear.
You would be maybe made to wear sackcloth.
You'd be tied to the back of the dung cart and you'd be whipped through the town.
OK.
If you were a man, you'd be reprimanded by your...
pastor, and you might be made to sit on the stool of repentance, which was a three-legged stool where one leg was shorter than the others so that you couldn't sit or stand without almost toppling off.
They did.
There's a strong strain of sadism that runs through all of this.
who was a Bible-thumping, Old Testament-style preacher.
He hated Catholics, he hated the French, and he hated women.
And here you have this beautiful, glamorous, French-raised queen coming back to overlord him.
So he was against her from the moment her foot first landed on Scottish soil for the first time in 13 years.
No, that's right.
He hated everything that Mary was.
He's most famous for treaties, which he published only a few years before Mary returned, called The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
because at that time, France, England and Scotland were all ruled by women.
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