The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1

Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6), by John Knox

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Title: The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
Author: John Knox
Editor: David Laing
Release Date: June 26, 2007 [EBook #21938]
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THE WORKS
OF
JOHN KNOX

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
DAVID LAING, LL.D.
VOLUME FIRST.
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.

THE WORKS
OF
$JOHN KNOX$.
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
$DAVID LAING, LL.D.$

VOLUME FIRST.

EDINBURGH: JAMES THIN, 55 SOUTH BRIDGE.
MDCCCXCV.
AD SCOTOS TRANSEUNTIBUS PRIMO-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
CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES OF THE CHIEF EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF JOHN KNOX, xi
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE, xxv
BOOK FIRST, 1494--1558, 1
BOOK SECOND, 1558--1559, 295
APPENDIX.
No. I.--INTERPOLATIONS AND VARIOUS READINGS IN BOOK FIRST AND SECOND IN BUCHANAN'S EDITIONS OF THE HISTORY, IN 1644, 477
No. II.--ON THE LOLLARDS IN SCOTLAND, DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, 496
No. III.--PATRICK HAMILTON, ABBOT OF FERNE, 500
No. IV.--ON THE ROYAL PILGRIMAGES TO THE SHRINE OF ST. DUTHACK, AT TAIN, IN ROSS-SHIRE, 515
No. V.--FOXE'S ACCOUNT OF HENRY FORREST, AND OTHER MARTYRS IN SCOTLAND, DURING THE REIGN OF KING JAMES THE FIFTH, 516
No. VI.--NOTICES OF THE PROTESTANT EXILES FROM SCOTLAND, DURING THE REIGN OF KING JAMES THE FIFTH, 526
No. VII.--ALEXANDER SEYTON, 531
No. VIII.--SIR JOHN BORTHWICK, 533
No. IX.--GEORGE WISHART, 534
No. X.--JOHN ROUGH, 537
No. XI.--NORMAN LESLEY, 541
No. XII.--ADAM WALLACE, 543
No. XIII.--WALTER MYLN, 550
No. XIV.--ON THE TITLE OF SIR APPLIED TO PRIESTS, 555
No. XV.--ON THE TUMULT IN EDINBURGH, AT THE PROCESSION ON ST. GILES'S DAY, 1558, 558
No. XVI.--PROVINCIAL COUNCILS IN SCOTLAND, 1549-1559, 561
No. XVII.--LETTER OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS TO LORD JAMES, PRIOR OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. ANDREWS. JULY 1559, 562
No. XVIII.--DAVID FORREST, GENERAL OF THE MINT, 563
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No. I. IOANNES CNOXVS.
From THEOD. BEZ? ICONES, etc., M.D.LXXX. xii
No. II. HANDWRITTEN PREFACE facing page xxxi
No. VII. SIGNATURE OF M JO. KNOX. xxxiv augusti 18 a^o 1581
$ADVERTISEMENT$.
This publication of the Works of JOHN KNOX, it is supposed, will extend to Five Volumes. It was thought advisable to commence the series with his History of the Reformation in Scotland, as the work of greatest importance. The next volume will thus contain the Third and Fourth Books, which continue the History to the year 1564; at which period his historical labours may be considered to terminate. But the Fifth Book, forming a sequel to the History, and published under his name in 1644, will also be included. His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings will be arranged in the subsequent volumes, as nearly as possible in chronological order; each portion being introduced by a separate notice, respecting the manuscript or printed copies from which they have been taken.
It may perhaps be expected that a Life of the Author should have been prefixed to this volume. The Life of Knox, by DR. M'CRIE, is however a work so universally known, and of so much historical value, as to supersede any attempt that might be made for a detailed biography; and none of the earlier sketches of his life is sufficiently minute or accurate to answer the purpose intended. In order to obviate the necessity of the reader having recourse to other authorities, I have added some chronological notices of the leading events in his life; reserving to the conclusion of the work any remarks, in connexion with this publication, that may seem to be requisite.
I was very desirous of obtaining a Portrait of the Reformer, to accompany this volume. Hitherto all my inquiries have failed to discover any undoubted original painting, among several which have either been so described, or engraved as such.[1] In the meantime, a tolerably accurate fac-simile is given of the wood-cut portrait of Knox,[2] included by Theodore Beza, in his volume entitled "ICONES, id est, Ver? Imagines Virorum Doctrina simul et Pietate illustrium," &c., published at Geneva, in the year 1580, 4to. It is the earliest of the engraved portraits, and, so far as we can judge, it ought to serve as a kind of test by which other portraits must be tried. A similar head engraved on copper, is to be found in Verheiden's "Pr?stantium aliquot Theologorum, &c., Effigies," published at the Hague, in 1602, folio; but this, I apprehend, is merely an improved copy from