Margaret Wilson - JE Millais

Forfatter/Opretter:

John Everett Millais

Kredit:

DMVI

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Wood engraving depicting the Scottish martyr Margaret Wilson, tied to a stake in the Solway, because, as a Covenanter, refusing to acknowledge James II as head of the church. Drawn by John Everett Millais, engraved by the workshop of Joseph Swain. Published in Once a Week, volume 7, page 42. The caption in the magazine reads: 'See Lord Macaulay's History of England, vol. i., page 501. Margaret Wilson's epitaph, from Woodrow, in the Church yard of Wigton, is as follows: Murdered for owning Christ supreme / Head of his Church, and no more crime / But her not owning Prelacy, / And not abjuring Presbytery; / Within the sea, tied to a stake, / She suffered for Christ Jesu’s sake.'

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