Talk:Dunkeld Lectern
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Because it is a quote with archaic spellings, I don't want to assume typos, but should "vengence" be spelled "vengeance" in the paragraph about the Earl of Hertford in the History section? All four Google references use "vengence."
Further searching reveals the quote given with even more archaic spellings in The Rough Wooing (under "The Wooing Begins"):
...Put all to fyre and swoorde, burne Edinborough towne, so rased and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it, as there may remayn forever a perpetual memory of the vengeaunce of God lightened upon them for their faulsehode and disloyailtye. Do what ye can out of hande...to beate down and overthrowe the castle, sack Holyrood house, and as many townes and villages about Edinborough as ye may conveniently, sack Lythe and burn and subvert it and all the rest, putting man, woman and child to fyre and sworde without exception, where any resistance shallbe made agaynst you, and this done passe over to Fyfelande and extende like extremityes and destructions in all towns and villaiges whereunto ye may reach convenyently not forgetting the Cardinalles town of St Andrews, as thupper stone may be the nether, and not one stick stande by another, sparing no creature alyve within the same, especially such as either in frendeship or bloosd be alyed to the Cardinal."
Since this quote is more extensive, I'm inclined to consider it more authoritative and its spelling more trustworthy ("vengence" may be a typo, but "vengeaunce" is an unlikely slip of the fingers!), in which case other words should be altered here, too. I'm just a lowly typo-erradicator, so I will leave this to someone with actual subject knowledge to research and edit if need be. Kyriosity 02:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)