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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 Restalrig, on the 6th November 1559,
  retreated to Linlithgow that night, leaving their artillery on the
  streets of Edinburgh. See also Diurnal of Occurrents, pp. 55, 271; and
  Sadler's State Papers, vol. i. p. 554. Sadler describes the
  Protestants as retiring from Edinburgh, "bytuene one and two a clocke
  in the mornyng;" and adds, "And the Quene Dowager and her French be
  now in Edynburgh in gret tryumphe, the most parte of the substanciall
  men of the same being fled out of the towne, with their hole
  families."

  [2] In a letter to Sadler, dated Stirling, 11th November 1559, Thomas
  Randall says, "Upon Thursdaye last (9th November) the Erle of Arraine
  received a cartell of defiance from the Erle of Bothwell, requyering
  of him the combate; the copie whereof, and aunswer to the same, I will
  bring with me." (State Papers, vol. i. p. 565.)

  [3] The Earl of Bothwell had previously joined himself to the party of
  the Queen Regent. According to the Treasurer's Account, on the 29th
  October 1558, a messenger was sent with "clois writtingis of the Quene
  to the Erle Bothwell, Lieutennant." On the 12th January 1558-9, James
  Earl of Bothwell received L100, "be the Queen's precept, for keiping
  of the Castell of Armitage, from the 15th day of September to the 15th
  of Januar instant last bipast."

  [4] John Lord Erskine, afterwards Earl of Mar: see vol. i p. 416.

  [5] That is, Francis the Second, the young King of France, was wholly
  governed by the Duke of Guyse, brother of the Queen Regent of
  Scotland.

  [6] In MS. G, "Marquis D'Albufe, and his cumpanie the Maritickis." In
  the MS. of 1566, the name was originally written "Marquis D'Omall,"
  but is corrected to "Dalbul," or "Dalbuf."--Rene de Loraine, Marquis
  of D'Albeuf, was the seventh son of Claude de Loraine, first Duke de
  Guyse. He was born in 1536, and died in 1566. (Anselme, Hist. Geneal.,
  vol. iii. p. 492.) He was General of the French galleys.

  [7] The town of Dieppe, in France.--On the 11th January 1559-60, Queen
  Elizabeth wrote to the Duke of Norfolk: "Our shipps have bene stayed
  with contrary wynds, and so be the French also;" and referring to what
  Knox has stated, it is added, "We be advertised that Martiges is
  dryven by wether into Denmark; and one thousand Frenchmen lost by
  tempest in Zeland; so as it shuld seme that God is pleased the French
  purposees should not so speedely be accomplished, as their meaning
  is."--(Burghley State Papers, by Haynes, p. 223.)

Frome England returned Robert Melven,[8] who past in cumpanye to
London with the Secreatarie,[9] a lytill befoir Christenmesse,[10]
and brought unto us certane Articles to be ansuered, as by the
contract that after was made, more planely shall appeir. Whairupon the
Nobilitie convened at Striveling, and returned ansuer with diligence.
Whairof the Frenche advertisshed, thei marched to Lynlythqw, spoiled
the Duckis house, and waisted his landis of Kynneill;[11] and
thairefter came to Striveling,[12] whair thei remaned certane dayis:
(the Duck, the Erles of Ergyle and Glencarne, with thair freindis,
passed to Glaskow; the Erle of Arrane, and Lord James, past to
Sanctandrois; for charge was gevin to the haill Nobilitie,
Protestantis, to keap thair awin bodyis, till that God should send
thame farther supporte.) The Frenche took purpose first to assault
Fyffe; for at it was thair great indignatioun. Thair purpose was, to
have tacken and fortifyed the Toune and Abbay, with the Castell of
Sanctandrois; and so thei cam to Culross, after to Dumfermeling, and
then to Bruntyland, whair thei began to forte; but desisted thairfra,
and marched to Kynghorne, upoun the occasioun as followeth.

  [8] Robert Melville was the second son of Sir John Melville of Raith
  (whose death is recorded by Knox, vol. i. p. 284.)

  [9] William Maitland of Lethington, younger, was appointed by the
  Queen Regent, Secretary of State, 4th December 1558. (Reg. Secr.
  Sigilli.) He had previously been employed in her affairs. In September
  1555, the Treasurer paid to William Maitland, "be the Quenis grace
  precept, for his pensioun of this instant zeir," L150. On the 11th
  February 1557-8, when sent in embassy to London, he received from the
  Treasurer 600 crowns of the Sun, extending to L765; and on the 30th
  March 1558-9, he received a similar sum, when "passand of Edinburgh to
  London and France, on the Quenis grace affairis." He joined the
  Protestants in October 1559.

  [10] Maitland was accompanied by Thomas Randall, under the assumed
  name of Barnabie, and they were expected at Newcastle on the 21st
  November. (Sadler's State Papers, vol. i. p. 592.) Some of Maitland's
  letters at this time, also the "Instructions for the Lorde of
  Lidington, how to conceyve and directe the sute and complaynte of us
  the Nobles, Gentlemen, and Burgesses of Scotland, in this our
  distresse, to the Quenis Majestie of England," dated 24th November,
  are preserved by Sadler. (Ib. pp. 604, 628, 686, 716.)

  [11] Kinneill House, in the parish of that name, now conjoined with
  Borrowstounness, is the property, and was occasionally used as the
  family residence of the Dukes of Hamilton.--The Treasurer, in October
  1553, paid, "Be my Lord Gouernouris commande, to the masonis in
  Kynnele, in drinksyluer, _at the laying of the ground-stane of the
  Palice of Kynnele_." The house has a beautiful exposure on the south
  side of the Frith of Forth, near where the old Roman Wall terminated.

  [12] In the MS. of 1566, and Vautr. edit., "Stirveling."--It may be
  remarked that several leaves of the MS. in this place form one of
  those quires or sets which appear to have been rewritten, about 1570,
  with very little attention to minute accuracy. Occasional corrections,
  chiefly in orthography, have therefore been made on the authority of
  the Glasgow MS., but few of such importance as to require special
  notice.

[Sidenote: THE ERLE OF SUDDERLANDE SCHOTE]

When certane knowledge came to the Erle of Arrane, and to Lord James,
that the Frenche war departed from Striveling, thei departed also from
Sanctandrois, and begane to assemble thair forces at Cowper, and send
thair men of warr to Kinghorne;[13] unto whome thair resorted diverse
of the coast syd, of mynd to resist rather at the begynnyng, than when
thei had destroyed a parte of thair townes. But the Lordis had gevin
ane expresse commandiment, that thei should hasard nothing whill that
thei thameselfis war present. And for that purpose was send unto thame
the Lord Ruthven, a man of great experience, and inferiour to few in
stowtnes. In his cumpany was the Erle of Sudderland,[14] send from the
Erle of Huntley, as he alledged, to conforte the Lordis in thair
afflictioun; butt otheris whispered, that his principall commissioun
was unto the Quene Regent. Howsoever it was, he was hurte in the arme
by the schote of ane haquebute; for the men of warr, and the rascall
multitude, perceaving certane boatis of Frenchemen landing, whiche cam
from Leyth, purposed to stoppe thair landing; and so, nott considering
the ennemeis that approched from Bruntyland, unadvisedlie thei russhed
doune to the Petticurr, (so is that bray be-west Kynghorne[15]
called,) and at the sea-coast began the skarmissing, butt never took
head to the ennemye that approached by land, till that the horsemen
charged thame upon thair backis, and the hole bandis cam directlie in
thare faces; and so war thei compelled to geve backis, with the loss
of sex or sevin of thair men, and with the takein of some, amangis
whome war twa that professed Christ Jesus, one named Paule
Lambert,[16] a Ducheman, and a Frenche boy, fervent in religioun, and
cleane of lyef, whome, in despyte, thei hanged ower the steaple.[17]
Thou shall revenge, O Lord, in thy appointed tyme! The caus that in so
great a danger thair was so small a losse, nixt unto the mercyfull
providence of God, was the suddane cuming of the Lord Ruthven; for
evin as our men had gevin backis, he and his cumpany came to the head
of the bray, and did not onlie stay the Frenche footemen, but also
some of ours brack upoun thair horsemen, and so repulsed thame that
thei did no farther hurte to oure footemen. In that rencontare was the
Erle of Sudderland foirsaid schote in the arme, and was caryed back to
Cowper. The Frenche took Kinghorne, whair they lay, and wasted the
countrey about, alsweall Papistis as Protestantis; yea, even those
that war confidderat with thame, suche as Seafield, Weames, Balmowto,
Balwearry, and otheris,[18] ennemyes to God and traytouris to thair
countrey. Of those (we say) thei spaired not the scheipe, the oxen,
the kyne, and horse; and some say that thair wyffis and doughtaris
gatt favouris of the Frenche soldiouris. And so did God recompense the
Papistis in thair awin bosomes, for, besydis the defoulling of thair
housses, as said is, tuo of thame resavit more damage then did all the
gentilmen that professed the Evangell within Fyff, the Laird of
Grange onlye excepted, whose [house][19] of the Grange the Frenche
owerthrew by gun pouder.

  [13] On the 8th of January 1559-60. (Sadler's State Papers, vol. i. p.
  684.)

  [14] John, tenth Earl of Sutherland. The Earl of Arran, and Lord James
  Stewart, in a letter to Sadler, dated Dysart, 19th January, make
  mention of the Earl of Huntly having sent "in commission to us, his
  cousen the Erle of Sutherland, to offer unto us adjunction in our
  common actioun in his name, and all his assistance; and, at the first
  skirmishe, hazarding himself too farre, was shott in the left arme,
  and hurt very evill; for which cause he is departed home, and shall
  cause the Erle Huntley performe his promesse." (Vol. i. p. 691.) "The
  Lorde of Southerland, sithens he was hurte, is becom a greate enemye
  of the Franches." (Letter to Sadler, 4th February 1559-60. Ib. p.
  702.) His wound did not prove fatal, but he died from the effects of
  poison, in 1567, in the forty-second year of his age.

  [15] In MS. G, "that Bey betuix Kinghorne."--The places here mentioned
  are all well known, stretching along the coast of Fife, on the north
  side of the Frith of Forth, to the west of Kirkaldy.

  [16] In MS. 1566, "Paule Lambett."

  [17] In MS. G, "over the stipell of Kinghorne."

  [18] The persons here referred to, with other gentlemen of Fife, are
  afterwards noticed by Knox, as having been apprehended by the Earl of
  Arran and Lord James Stewart for the assistance they had rendered to
  the French. Seafield and Balmuto are in the parish of Kinghorn; Wemyss
  in the parish of that name; and Balweary in that of Abbotshall.

  [19] Omitted in the MS.--The House of Grange is about a mile to the
  north-east of Kinghorn, and in that parish.

[Sidenote: THE CASTEIN DOUN OF THE HOUSE OF THE GRANGE.]

The Quene Regent, proude of this victorie, burst furth in hir
blasphemous rayling, and said, "Whair is now Johne Knox his God? My
God is now stronger than his, yea even in Fyff." Sche posted to hir
freindis in France news[20] that thousandis of the heretickis war
slaine, and the rest war fled; and thairfoir requyred, that some
Nobleman of hir freindis wald cum and tak the glorie of that victorye.
Upon that informatioun was the Martikkis, with tuo schippis, and sum
Captanis and horse, directed to cum to Scotlande; but litill to thair
awin advantage, as we sall after heare.

  [20] In MS. 1566, "of new."

[Sidenote: JOAN. 6]

The Lordis of the Congregatioun, offended at the folisheness of the
rascall multitude, called to thameselfis the men of warr, and remaned
certane dayes at Cowper; unto whome repaired Johne Knox, and, in our
greatest disperatioun, preached unto us a most comfortable sermon. His
text was, "The danger in whiche the disciplis of Christ Jesus stude
quhen thei wer in the mydest of the sea, and Jesus was upon the
mountaine." His exhortatioun was, "That we sould not faint, but that
we sould still row aganis these contrarius blastis, till that Jesus
Christ sould come; for (said he,) I am as assuredlie persuaded that
God sall delyver us frome the extreme trowbill, as that I am assured
that this is the Evangell of Jesus Christ whiche I preche unto [you]
this day. 'The fourth watche is nocht yet come;' abyde a lytill: the
boit salbe saved, and Peter, whiche hes left the boit, sall not
droune. I am assured, albeit I cannot assure[21] you, be reason of
this present rage; God grant that ye may