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…THE MURDER OF CARDINAL BEATON

When King James V died in 1542, he left behind him a precarious kingdom. In part, this was because his heir and successor, Mary I, was a six-day-old baby, setting the scene for vicious power-struggles among the prominent people of the kingdom. More generally, however, Scotland was becoming increasingly divided between two broad visions of the future: a pro-English

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