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How did Mary of Guise respond to the Protestant movement?

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Protestantism was spreading rapidly in Scotland, and Mary, though at first conciliatory toward the reformers, began a campaign of suppression. In 1559 the Protestants, exhorted by John Knox , rose against the regent and declared her deposed.

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