Chapter XVII: Part 17

442 ― Sadler, i. 520, 524. Randolph mentions in one of his
letters, that both Knox and Balnaves were discontented.
Keith has inserted a letter in which Balnaves complains of,
and vindicates himself from, the charges brought against
him. Sadler afterwards endeavoured to pacify them. Keith,
Append. 43, 44. Sadler, i. p. 537, 548. Notwithstanding
the complaints against the Congregation for being too
“open,” there is some reason to think that Sir James
Croft’s own secretary had informed the queen regent of
the correspondence between England and the Congregation,
Forbes, i. p. 137.

443 ― “See how Mr Knox still presses his under‑hand management!”
says Keith. _Quære_: Did the honest bishop never find
any occasion, in the course of his history, to reprimand
such management in his own friends? or, did he think
that intrigue was criminal, only when it was employed
by protestant cabinets and ministers?

444 ― Keith, Append. 40‒42. Sadler, i. p. 523. In fact, if a
storm had not dispersed and shattered the French fleet,
which had on board the marquis D’Elbeuf, and a large body
of troops, destined for the reinforcement of the queen
regent, the English, after so long delay, would have found
it very difficult to expel the French from Scotland.

445 ― Sadler, i. 522, 534, 568.

446 ― The lords of the Congregation having proposed to send
our Reformer to London as one of their commissioners,
Cecil found it necessary to discourage the proposal.
“Of all others, Knoxees name, if it be not Goodman’s,
is most odious here; and therefore, I wish no mention of
him [coming] hither.” And in another letter he says; “His
writings [_i.e._ Knox’s letters] doo no good here; and
therefore I doo rather suppress them, and yet I meane not
but that ye should contynue in sending of them.” Sadler,
i. 532, 535. The editor of Sadler supposes, without
any reason, that Knox and Goodman were disliked by the
English court on account of their Geneva discipline, and
republican tenets. The unpardonable offence of which both
had been guilty was different from either of these; they
had attacked “the regiment of women.”

447 ― Sadler, i. 540. Keith, Append. 40.

448 ― “In twenty‑four hours, I have not four free to natural
rest, and easce of this wicked carcass. Remember my last
request for my mother, and say to Mr George,” (Sir George
Bowes, his brother‑in‑law,) “that I have need of a good
and an assured horse; for great watch is laid for my
apprehension, and large money promised till any that
shall kyll me.――――And this part of my care now poured
in your bosom, I cease farther to trouble you, being
troubled myself in body and spirit, for the troubles
that be present, and appear to grow. At mydnicht.

“Many things I have to writ, which now tym suffereth not,
but after, if ye mak haste with this messinger, ye shall
undirstand more. R ryt I write with
sleaping eis.” Knox’s letter to Raylton, 23d
October, 1559. Keith, Append. 38. Sadler, i. 681, 682.

This letter, written with the Reformer’s own hand, is
in the British Museum. Cotton MS. Calig. B. ix. f. 38.
The conclusion of the letter, which is here printed in
imitation of the original, is very descriptive of the
state of the writer at the time. It also appears from this
letter, that, amidst his other employments, he had already
begun and made considerable progress in his History of the
Reformation.

449 ― Forbes, i. 117, 144, 163, 166. Sadler, i. 404, 417, 447.

450 ― See Note LL.

451 ― Dr Robertson says, “It was the work but of one day to
examine and resolve this nice problem, concerning the
behaviour of subjects towards a ruler who abuses his
power.” But it may be observed, that this was the _formal_
determination of the question. It had been discussed among
the protestants frequently before this meeting, and, as
early as the beginning of September, they were nearly
unanimous about it. Sadler, i, 433. It should also be
noticed, that the queen regent was only suspended from,
not absolutely “deprived of,” her office.

452 ― Knox, 182‒187.

453 ― Sadler, i. 510, 511.

454 ― Spotswood, p. 137. Keith, p. 104.

455 ― Villers’s Essay on the spirit and influence of the
Reformation of Luther, Mill’s Translation, p. 183, 186,
321, 327.

456 ― See above, p. 7‒9.

457 ― “I prais my God,” said he, “I have not learned to cry
conjuration and treasoun at every thing that the godles
multitude does condemn, neither yet to fear the things
that they fear.” Conference with Murray and Maitland:
Historie, p. 339.

458 ― The authorities for this statement of Knox’s political
opinions will be found in Note MM.

459 ― “Concedit autem,” says Melanchthon, “evangelium uti
legibus politicis cum ratione congruentibus. Imo si talis
defensio non esset concessa, transformaretur evangelium in
doctrinam politicam, et stabiliret infinitam tyranniden.”
Comment. in Prov. xxiv. 21, 22. And again: “Non constituit
evangelium novas politias, quare nec infinitam servitutem
præcepit.” 2. Artic. Symbol. Nicen. sub quæstione,
_Utrum armis reprimendi sunt tyranni?_ This argument
influenced Luther to retract the unlimited condemnation of
resistance which he had formerly published, and to approve
of the League of Smalcald. Sleidan, Comment. lib. 8. Dean
Milner has overlooked this fact, in his statement of the
political principles of that Reformer.

460 ― Knox has preserved in his History (p. 194‒197) the
principal topics on which he insisted in this sermon.

461 ― Knox, Historie, p. 197, 201, 215. Spotswood, p. 140. MS.
Historie of the Estate of Scotland, p. 19‒22.

462 ― A particular account of this expedition, overlooked in our
common histories, is given in MS. Historie of the Estate
of Scotland from 1559 to 1566, p. 25‒7. Lesley (p. 519)
refers to it obscurely. Spotswood (p. 140) and Keith
(p. 110) have confounded it with a different expedition,
which was undertaken in November preceding.

463 ― Those who wish to see a particular account of the
negociations between France and England, and of the
motives which influenced both courts in their conduct
towards Scotland, may consult the letters published
by Forbes and Haynes, particularly those written from
November 1559 to July 1560.

464 ― Buchanani Oper. i. 313. Knox, 229‒234. Spotswood,
p. 147‒9. Keith, p. 130‒145.

465 ― Lesley, p. 516‒7. Spotswood, 133‒4. Keith, 102. Sadler
says, that the bishop of Amiens came “to curse, and also
to dispute with the protestants, and to reconcile them, if
it wolbe.” State Papers, i. 470.

466 ― The earl of Glencairn’s satirical poem against the friars
is written in the form of an epistle from this hermit.
Knox, Historie, p. 25.

467 ― He was the ancestor of Lord Colville of Ochiltree
(Douglas’s Peerage, p. 147); and was killed at the siege
of Leith, on the 7th of May, 1560. Knox, Historie, p. 227.

468 ― Row’s MS. Historie of the Kirk, p. 356, transcribed
in 1726. An account of this pretended miracle and its
detection, probably taken from the above MS., will be
found in the Weekly Magazine for June 1772.

469 ― The English ambassadors, in a letter to Elizabeth, say:
“Two things have bene tow hott [too hot] for the French
too meddle withal; and therefore they be passed, and left
as they found them. The first is the matter of religion,
which is here as freely, and rather more earnestly, (as
I, the secretary, thynk,) receaved than in England: a hard
thyng now to alter, as it is planted.” Haynes, p. 352.
Dr Wotton, dean of Windsor, and secretary Cecil, are the
subscribers of this letter; but as it would have been
rather too much for the dean to say that religion was
“more earnestly received” in Scotland than in England,
the secretary alone vouches for that fact.

470 ― By one of the articles of the treaty, the parliament,
after agreeing upon such things as they thought necessary
for the reformation of religion, were to send deputies
into France to represent them to their Majesties. Knox,
Historie, p. 234. Spotswood, p. 149.

471 ― Robertson’s History of Scotland, b. i. Keith, p. 147‒8.

472 ― Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 525‒6. Keith, 146‒7. Robertson, i.
Append. No. iv. In the list of members in this parliament,
the names of the lesser barons, or gentlemen of the shire,
are inserted after those of the commissioners of boroughs;
the roll having been made up previous to the admission of
the former.

473 ― Knox, Historie, p. 237‒8.

474 ― Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 526‒534. Knox, Historie, p. 240‒253.
Dunlop’s Confessions, ii. 21‒98.

475 ― In Knox’s Historie, “the 17th day of _July_” is printed,
by mistake, instead of the 17th of _August_. Act. Parl.
Scot. ii. 534.

476 ― Knox, Historie, p. 253.

477 ― Keith is at a great loss to account for, and excuse,
the silence of the popish clergy (to whom he is uniformly
partial); and he found himself obliged to retract one
apology which he had made for them, viz. that they were
deterred from speaking by the threatenings of their
opponents. History, p. 149, 150, comp. 488, note (a).

478 ― Knox, Historie, p. 253.

479 ― Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 534‒5. Knox, Historie, p. 254‒5.

480 ― In an early part of the Record, is the following entry:――

Item, the xii of November, (1516,) to Margaret Cornewle
for i buk takin fra her and gevin to my l. of Sanct
Andros, xxxiii li.

481 ― Comp. Knox, Historie, p. 40.

482 ― Comp. Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. i. p. 253‒263.

483 ― In the Treasurer’s Accompts, under the year 1534, is the
following entry:

“Item, to ane servand of Cocleus, quhilk bro{t} fra his
maister ane buik intitulat , to his reward
x{li}.”

484 ― The words in Italics are not in the printed copies.

485 ― The printed copies, instead of “end,” have “fyne;” a word
sometimes used in the MS. Letters.

486 ― A charter of confirmation was granted to Mr Henry Balnaves
and Christian Scheves, his spouse, of the lands of “Ester
Cullessy vocat. Halhill,” on the 10th of August, 1538. Reg.
Secr. Sigil. lib. xiij. f. 20. On the 12th of May, 1562,
a letter under the privy seal was granted to Mr Henry
Balnaves of Halhill, restoring him to his lands, honours,
&c., of which he had been deprived “for certane allegit
crymes of lese majestie imput to him.” Ibid. lib. xxxi.
f. 16.

487 ― _i.e._ deign: in the printed copies it is “disease himself.”

488 ― The printed copies are unintelligible here.

489 ― In a list of books belonging to the university of
St Andrews, Winram’s Catechism is entered as a work
distinct from that of Hamilton. Life of Andrew Melville,
vol. i. p. 191.

490 ― Carol. Rinaldinij. _Matth. Analit. art. pars 3tia._

491 ― _Nouvell. de la Republ. de Lett._ 1685.

492 ― Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xx. p. 422.

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