Far more than today propaganda was dependent on personal intercourse.

One of the first preachers of Lutheranism in Scotland was a Frenchman named La Tour, who was martyred on his return to his own country.

The noble Patrick Hamilton made a pilgrimage to the newly founded University of Marburg, and possibly to Wittenberg.

Filled, as his Catholic countryman, Bishop John Leslie put it, "with venom very poisonable and deadly.

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