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  • Ninian Winȝet or Winzet (/ˈwɪnjət/ WIN-yət; 1518–1592) was a Scottish Catholic priest and polemical writer. For more on the spelling of his name, see...
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    first Scottish abbot was Ninian Winzet (1518–92), an opponent of the reformer John Knox . Mary Queen of Scots ordered Abbot Winzet to train priests for Catholic...
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  • of the County of Dumfries (Glasgow, 1875) Certain Tractates . . . by Ninian Winzet, 2 vols. (Scot. Text Socy., Edinburgh, 1888) The Isle of Bute in the...
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  • writes mainly in Scots David Wingate (1828–1892), poet and collier Ninian Winzet (1518–1592), Roman Catholic priest and polemicist Robert Wodrow (1679–1734)...
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  • 'John Knox and Revolution, 1558', History Today, 8 (1958), pp. 565–73. Ninian Winzet and the Defence of the Faith in Scotland (Glasgow: Catholic Truth Society...
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    the Church of much that was corrupt. One such was Linlithgow priest Ninian Winzet, who courageously stood up to more militant reformers who wished to...
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    Rannald (alias Broun) from Kilpunt and her daughter Barbara Home (alias Winzet) were imprisoned in the Tolbooth on suspicion of witchcraft. Linlithgow...
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