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deputation, of which
Wishart was one, failed to obtain more than vague promises, and they proceeded to demand the banishment of her French supporters from the kingdom. Finding it impossible to gain satisfactory assurances from her, the protestant lords met at Edinburgh in October and elected a council of authority, to which Wishart was chosen. They drew up a manifesto in which it was declared that Mary of Guise had forfeited the office of Regent. In February 1560 he attended as commissioner the
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Between 1557 and July 1565 he grants of lands in
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in May 1573 he became a prisoner. On 11 June he was denounced as a rebel, and his lands and goods conferred on his nephew John
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was entrusted to a body of fourteen chosen from twenty-four persons nominated by parliament, of whom six, including
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Stewart, who had been suspected of leanings towards the regent's party since the destruction of the monasteries. Soon afterwards Wishart and William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead were appointed to negotiate with Mary of Guise, on the subject of liberty of worship. A second
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Wishart, and described him as "a man mervileus wyse, discryte, and godly, withowte spotte or wryncle." Wishart was one of those wittily portrayed in Thomas Maitland's squib representing a conference of the lords with the regent Moray.
185:, and on 25 July subscribed the articles in the general assembly. On 19 November he was appointed an extraordinary lord of session, and in October 1568 accompanied the regent Moray to York to support his charges against Mary. He preserved his loyalty during the
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in 1563, a half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots. Someone told her that Lord John's deathbed wish was that she would become a
Protestant. Mary declared without hesitation that this was a lie invented by Wishart and her brother Moray's secretary
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rebellion in 1568, and was appointed an arbitrator in regard to the compensation to be made to those who had suffered by it. Before Moray's assassination in
January 1570, however, he had left his party, and attached himself to that of the
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