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  THE WORKS
  OF
  JOHN KNOX


  COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
  DAVID LAING, LL.D.


  VOLUME SECOND.


  EDINBURGH:
  JAMES THIN, 55 SOUTH BRIDGE.
  MDCCCXCV.


  WORKS
  OF
  JOHN KNOX.

  THE WODROW SOCIETY,

  INSTITUTED MAY 1841,

  FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE WORKS OF THE FATHERS AND EARLY
  WRITERS OF THE REFORMED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.


  AD SCOTOS TRANSEUNTIBUS PRIMUS OCCURRIT MAGNUS ILLE JOANNES
  CNOXUS, QUEM SI SCOTORUM IN VERO DEI CULTU INSTAURANDO, VELUT
  APOSTOLUM QUENDAM DIXERO, DIXISSE ME QUOD RES EST EXISTIMABO.

                                                  THEOD. BEZA.

  Manufactured in the United States of America

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


                                                           PAGE

  ADVERTISEMENT,                                            vii

  HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND.

    BOOK THIRD, 1559-1561,                                    1

    THE CONFESSION OF FAITH, 1560,                           93

    THE BUKE OF DISCIPLINE, 1560,                           183

  HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND.

    BOOK FOURTH, 1561--1564,                                261

    INTRODUCTORY NOTICE TO BOOK FIFTH,                      465

    BOOK FIFTH, 1564-1567,                                  469

  APPENDIX.

    No. I.--INTERPOLATIONS AND VARIOUS READINGS IN BOOK
      THIRD AND FOURTH IN BUCHANAN'S EDITIONS OF
      THE HISTORY, IN 1644,                                 569

      NOTICES OF THE EDITOR, DAVID BUCHANAN,                584

    No. II.--ON SPOTTISWOOD'S EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF
      DISCIPLINE,                                           587

    No. III.--FUNERALS OF MARY OF GUISE, QUEEN REGENT OF
      SCOTLAND,                                             590

    No. IV.--NOTICES OF JOHN BLACK, A DOMINICAN FRIAR,      592

    No. V.--NOTICES OF DAVID RICCIO,                        595

    No. VI.--THE ABBOTS OF CULROSS AND LINDORES IN 1560;
      AND JOHN LESLEY, BISHOP OF ROSS,                      598

  GLOSSARY,                                                 603

  INDEX OF PERSONS,                                         619

  INDEX OF PLACES,                                          639

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ADVERTISEMENT.


THE present Volume completes THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN
SCOTLAND, and includes Book Fifth, which was published under Knox's
name in 1644, but of which no manuscript copy has been discovered.
Separate title pages are given, along with a Glossary and Index, as
the History forms a distinct portion of the Reformer's Works; and
these two volumes will probably be in the hands of many Members of the
WODROW SOCIETY who may not be inclined to procure the remaining three,
or more probably, four volumes of the series, in the event of some
arrangement being made by which their publication, as proposed, shall
ultimately be secured.

                                                               D. L.

EDINBURGH, _May_ 1848.




  THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE PROGRESSE OF
    TREW RELIGIOUN WITHIN THE REALME
    OF SCOTLAND.


[Sidenote: NOTA.--HEBBURN AGAINST THE ERLE OF ARRANE BEING INNOCENT.]

[Sidenote: THE DROWNYNG OF THE FRENCHE.]

AFTER this our dolorous departing from Edinburgh,[1] the furye and the
raige of the Frenche increassed; for then durst neither man nor woman
that professed Christ Jesus within that toune be seyn. The housses of
the most honest men war gevin by the Quene to Frenchemen for a parte
of thair reward. The Erle Bothwell, by sound of trumpett, proclaimed
the Erle of Arrane traytour,[2] with other dispytefull wourdes: whiche
all was done for the pleasure and by the suggestioun of the Quene
Regent,[3] who then thought the battell was won without farther
resistance. Great practising sche maid for obteaneing of the Castell
of Edinburgh. The Frenche maid thair faggottis, with other
preparationis, to assault the said Castell either by force, or ellis
by treassone. But God wrought so potentlie with the Capitane, the Lord
Erskin,[4] at that tyme, that neither the Quene by flatterye, nor the
Frenche by treassoun prevailled. Advertisementis with all diligence
past to the Duck of Gwise, who then was King of France (as concerneing
power to command[5]), requiring him then to make expeditioun, yf he
desyred the full conquest of Scotland. Who delayed no tyme, but with a
new armye send away his brother, Marquis Dalbuf, and in his company
the Martikis,[6] promissing, that he himself should follow. But the
rychteouse God, who in mercy looketh upon the afflictioun of those
that unfeanedlye sob unto him, fought for us by his awin out-stretched
arme; for, upon one nycht, upon the coast of Holand, war drowned of
thame aughttein ensenzeis, so that onlye rested the schip in the
whiche war the two principallis foirsaid, with thair Ladyis; who,
violentlie dreven back agane to Deape,[7] war compelled to confesse,
That God fawght for the defence of Scotland.

  [1] As related in vol. i. page 462, the Lords of the Congregation,
  after the unfortunate skirmish at Rest