Consistently Eccentric History

Edward Wightman - Burning with a passion for the Lord


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This week we are dabbling in the world of organised religion to discuss a dissenting Christian Lay-preacher who is remembered to history for a singularly grizzly reason.


Starting out as a middle-class draper with all the advantages of a private education and tonnes of family connections it seemed like Edward Wightman would be living life on easy street (or as easy as it could be in Elizabethan England). Unfortunately his education turned out to be a bit more liberal than his parents might have expected, introducing him a world of non-conformist Christian worship and new-fangled religious ideas.


Still, so long as he kept his head down it was sure to be fine...


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