Henry Forrest (martyr)

Laing also states that the name "Henricus Forrus" occurs in the list of students who became Bachelors of Arts at the University of Glasgow in 1518, but supposes with more likelihood that he was identical with the "Henriccus Forrest" who was a determinant in St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, in 1526, which would account for his special interest in the fate of Patrick Hamilton.

Knox states that Forrest suffered martyrdom for no other crime than having in his possession a New Testament in English; but Foxe gives as the chief reason that he had "affirmed and said that Mr. Patrick Hamilton died a martyr, and that his articles were true."

Before being brought to trial Forrest, according to Knox, underwent "a long imprisonment in the sea tower of St.

Foxe and Spotiswood both state that the evidence against him was insufficient until a friar, Walter Laing, was sent on purpose to confess him, when he unsuspiciously revealed his sentiments in regard to Patrick Hamilton.

He was then condemned as a heretic and burned at the north church stile of the abbey church of St. Andrews, "to the intent that all the people of Anguishe" (Angus or Forfar, on the north side of the Firth of Tay) "might see the fire, and so might be the more feared from falling into the like doctrine."