Walter Milne

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Walter Mylneor Milne (or Mill) was the last Protestant martyr to be burned in Scotland before the Reformation changed the country from Catholic to Presbyterian.

Milne was a married man and had at one point been a Roman Catholic priest from the Parish of Lunan near Aberdeen)[1].

He was burned for heresy at St Andrews in April 1558 at the age of 82, at the behest of the Roman Catholic Archbishop John Hamilton[2]. When he was sentenced to die, Milne replied "I will not recant the truth. I am corn, not chaff; I will not be blown away with the wind or burst by the flail. I will survive both."