The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 | Page 3

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both in the parish Church, and in the Castle until its surrender.
June. The French fleet appeared in St. Andrews Bay, to lay siege to the
Castle, which surrendered on the 30th of July; but in defiance of the
terms of capitulation, the chief persons in the place were sent as
prisoners on board the French galleys.
During this winter, the vessel on board of which Knox was confined,
remained in the river Loire.
[SN: 1548.]
The vessel returned to Scotland, about the time of the siege of
Haddington in June; and when within sight of St. Andrews, Knox
uttered his memorable prediction, that he would yet survive to preach
in that place where God had opened his mouth for the ministry.
During this winter, he was kept prisoner at Rouen, where he wrote a
Preface to Balnaves's Treatise of Justification, which was sent to
Scotland, and until some years after his death, was supposed to be lost.
[SN: 1549.]
February. Knox obtained his liberty, after an imprisonment of nineteen
months. He came to England, and soon afterwards was appointed by
the English Council to be a preacher in the town of Berwick.

[SN: 1550.]
April 4. Knox was summoned to appear at Newcastle before Dr.
Tonstall, Bishop of Durham, to give an account of his doctrine.
At the close of this year he was removed from Berwick to Newcastle,
where he continued his ministerial labours.
[SN: 1551.]
December. Knox was appointed by the Privy Council of England one
of six Chaplains to Edward the Sixth. This led to his occasional
residence in London during 1552 and 1553.
[SN: 1552.]
October. He received an offer of the Bishopric of Rochester; but this
preferment he declined.
[SN: 1553.]
In or about February, Knox was summoned before the Privy Council of
England, upon complaints made by the Duke of Northumberland; but
was acquitted.
April 14. He also declined accepting the vacant living of All-Hallows,
in London, and, on account of his refusal, was again summoned before
the Privy Council.
Edward the Sixth died on the 6th of July, and the persecution of the
Protestants being revived during the reign of Queen Mary, most of the
Reformed ministers and many of the laity made their escape, and
sought refuge in foreign countries, in the course of that year.
[SN: 1554.]
January 28. Knox was at Dieppe, where he remained till the end of
February. He then proceeded to Geneva, but was again at Dieppe in
July, "to learn the estate of England."

April 10. The Queen Dowager, Mary of Guise, was installed Regent of
Scotland.
On the 4th of September, he received a call from the English
Congregation at Frankfort on the Maine, to become their minister. He
accepted the invitation, and repaired to that city in November.
[SN: 1555.]
In consequence of the disputes which arose in the English
Congregation at Frankfort, in regard to the use of the Book of Common
Prayer, and the introduction of various ceremonies. Knox was
constrained to relinquish his charge; and having preached a farewell
discourse on the 26th of March, he left that city, and returned to
Geneva. Here he must have resumed his ministerial labours; as, on the
1st of November that year, in the "Livre des Anglois, à Geneve," it is
expressly said, that Christopher Goodman and Anthony Gilby were
"appointed to preche the word of God and mynyster the Sacraments, in
th' absence of John Knox." This refers to his having resolved to visit his
native country.
Knox proceeded to Dieppe in August, and in the following month
landed on the east coast of Scotland, not far from Berwick. Most of this
winter he spent in Edinburgh, preaching and exhorting in private.
[SN: 1556.]
In the beginning of this year Knox went to Ayrshire, accompanied with
several of the leading Protestants of that county, and preached openly
in the town of Ayr, and in other parts of the country. He was
summoned to appear before a Convention of the Popish Clergy, on the
15th of May, at Edinburgh. About the same time, he addressed his
Letter to the Queen Regent.
Having received a solicitation for his return to Geneva, to become one
of their pastors, Knox left Scotland in July that year. Before this time
he married Marjory Bowes. Her father was Richard, the youngest son
of Sir Ralph Bowes of Streatlam; her mother was Elizabeth, a daughter

and co-heiress of Sir Roger Aske of Aske.
On the 13th September, Knox, along with his wife and his
mother-in-law, were formally admitted members of the English
Congregation. At the annual election of Ministers, on the 16th of
December, Knox and Goodman were re-elected.
[SN: 1557.]
Having received a pressing invitation from Scotland, which he
considered to be his duty to accept, Knox took leave of