The Works of John Knox Volume I Part 23

61, l. 8. _whome war_ those of Dundie.--12. _Borthwik_, Provost of Lithcow.--(_In the margin_,) Lesly writes this done 1540. John Borthwick fled into England, from whence Henry sent him into Germanie to the Protestant Princes.

62, l. 4. _Frearis_ and _Monks_, as of _Channons_.

64, l. 1. Alexander _Kennedy_.--2. _excellent_ wit in vulgar _poesy_.

66, l. 17-22. _so far had_ they blinded and corrupted the inconsiderate Prince, that he gave _himself to obey the tyrannie of those bloodie beasts_, and he _made a solemne vow_.

67, l. 6. _suddane_ punishment.--7. _upon him_, if _he did not repent_, and amend his _life_.

68, l. 5. _and deid_, not saying one _worde_, _that same day that_, in _audience_.

70, l. 8. _forgevance_ of the said _Thomas_.

71, l. 1-4. _change or_ alter the heart of the infortunate and misled Prince, but still he did proceed in his accustomed wayes. _For in the midst of these_ evills.

72, l. 2. _eschaping_, (the keepers being asleep, he went out at the window.)--5. _espy_ and detest.--10. Earle of Glevearne.

76, l. 1-5. After _G.o.d had given unto that_ mis-informed _Prince sufficient doc.u.ments_, _that his_ warring _against his blessed_ Gospel _should not prosperously succeed_, _he_ raised up _against him_ warres, as he did of old against divers Princes that would not hear his voice, _in the which he_ lost himself, _as we shall_ here_after heare_.

77, l. 18. _our kingdome_ of Abbots, Monks, &c., _and_.

79, l. 9. _Forresse war runne upon_--Forces were sent up and down to.

80, l. 12. _to skaill_ and sunder.--26. _wounded his_ high stomacke.--29. _had not_ cut the dayes of his life.

81, l. 9. _Preastis_--Prelats.

82, l. 2. _what tyme_--at that time when.--3. _Yles_, in the yeere 1534.--13. _Jefwellis_--Juglers.

83, l. 4. _I shall_ reproove _you by sharpe_ punishments.--16. _honour nor continuance_--honour nor countenance.

84, l. 2. _Thare concurred ... prophettis_, (_omitted._)--4. _closenes and_ fidelity among them.--7. _should be_ theirs.--11. _that Raid_--that device.--23-25. _amonges whome was_ the Erle of Arran, notwithstanding his siding with the current of the Court, and his neernesse in blood to the King. _It was bruited._

85, l. 15. _The_ foreward _goeth forth_, feare _rises_.--18. _thousand men_; their beacons _on every side_.

86, l. 5, 6. _experte_. _About ten houris_--expert, about ten hours.--8, 9. _baner_; and he upholden by two spears, _lift up_.--18. _and Mearns_.

_In this_ mountain _did_.--27. _array_ in order.

87, l. 2. _softlye_--safely.

88, l. 1. _to tack the_ bandis.--7. _Somervaill_ and Oliphant, _and many_.--9. _Worldly men_ say that.

89, l. 21. who waited upon news at Lochmaban.--(_In the margin_,) Others say, at Carlaverock, neere by the place where the defeat was given, called Solway Mosse.

90, l. 25. _ane of his_ mistresses.

91, l. 6. _for a_ scourge.--11. _it will end_ with _a woman_. From Mary, daughter to Robert Bruse, married to Walter Stuart, he feared that his daughter should be married to ane of another name and family; but yow see by G.o.d's providence, the Crown remains in one and the same family and name to this day, notwithstanding the many plots of the pretenders to the Crowne both at home and abroad.--15. _ane_ fit _comforter_.--21.

_that so_ it _should be_.

92, l. 3. _best_. The Cardinal having hired one Henry Balfour, a priest, to make a false Testament; which was done accordingly, but in vain.--6.

(_In the margin_,) Marke the Queenes mourning for the King. (_And a few lines lower down_,) Others stick not to say, That the King was hastned away by a potion. Levit. 12.--Divers characters of the King arise: post funera virtus.

93, l. 4, 5. _disprased him for_ being much given to women. The Prelats and Clergie feared a change in the King's mind, as he had expressed himself some few years before.--10. _cloked_. Yet to speak truth of him, his vices may justly be attributed to the times, and his breedeing, and not any wickednesse in his nature; for he gave many expressions of a good nature, namely, in his sobriety and justice, &c. _The question._--23. _he_ pretended _to succeid_.--26. _oppones thame_, and are against _the governement_.

94, l. 16. _against_ G.o.d's _justice_.--17. _And_ so, _in despite_.

95, l. 1. _heirof_ we _will after_ speak.--8. severed.--9. _The_ Erle of Arran thus being _established in_ the _governement_.--11. _exalted him_ to be Governour, _out of what danger he had delivered him_, he being in the b.l.o.o.d.y scroll, as wee saw before; _and what expectation all men of honesty had of him_, because they saw him a soft man, they conceited goodnesse of him.

97, l. 2. _drouned_--devoured.

98, l. 6. _Scriptures in the_ vulgar _tongue_.--9. _als_, (_omitted_.)--13. _the Kirk_--the Church, he means the Prelats, _first_.--14. _thei three_--but the three, viz., Hebrew, Greek, and Latine.

99, l. 3. _people used not_--people used the Psalmes.--27. _old Boses_--old Bishops.

100, l. 5. _had of the_ Old and New.--12, 13. _thair awin_ vulgar _toung_, _and so war_.--19. _in the_ vulgar _toung_.--22. (_In the margin_,) Note the hypocrisie of worldlings.

101, l. 5. _to maik courte_, and curry favour _thairby_.--25. (_In the margin_,) Nothing could be said against the lawfulnes of Edward's birth.

Katharine of Spain and Anne Bullen being dead before his mother was married to his father.

102, l. 5. _ensew to_ this _realme_.--18. _Maister_ Radulph _Saidlair_.

103, l. 5. _contract of marriage_ made _betuix_.--19. _abaide suyre at_--abode fast to.

105, l. 10. _Abbot of Paislay_, called now of late John Hamilton, _b.a.s.t.a.r.d brother_, &c.--(_In the margin there is added_,) He was before sometimes called Cunningham, sometimes Colwan, so uncertaine was it who was his father.--18. _one_ or the other would go to _the pulpit_.

107, l. 6. _then_ to have been so used--8. _deprehended_--followed.--14.

_his_ counterfeit _G.o.dlynes_.--15. _heirefter_--heirof.--22. _any joyt_--one jote.--25. _his rycht_--his pretended right.--26. _For by G.o.ddis word_ could not be good the divorcement of his father from Elizabeth Hume, sister to the Lord Hume, his lawfull wife, and consequently his marriage with Beton, neece to James Beton, Bishop of St. Andrews, (Elizabeth Hume being alive,) must be null, and he declared b.a.s.t.a.r.d. _Caiaphas spake_, &c.

109, (_To this marginal note is added_,) Renouncing his religion in the Gray Friers.

110, l. 23. _Governour_; First, because he himselfe was borne by Beton, his father's lawfull wife, Elizabeth Humes being yit alive; Next, because his grandfather was borne by Mary Stuart to James Hammilton, when her lawfull husband Thomas Boyd was yet alive. So the Earle of Lennox did not only pretend to be lawfully next to the Crowne, as the late King James the Fifth did often declare, That if he died without heire male, he would settle the Crowne upon him, but also lawfull heire of the Earledome of Arran, as being descended from Margaret Hamilton, borne to Mary Stuart and James Hammilton after the death of Thomas Boyd, her former husband, (now by this time the inconstant Earle of Arran had given himselfe wholly to the Cardinall.) _The Cardinall_, &c.--(_In the margin_,) All this was then said by the Cardinal. _Penes auth.o.r.em fides esto._

111, l. 4. _Ayre_--Ayre, Campbell.--6. _to Leyth_--to light.--18. _the sonare_--in time.

112, l. 15. _that he wold_ take.--16. _wold not_ grant.--17.

_communicat_--communed.

113, l. 4, 5. _the Magdelane day_--Saint Magdalen's day.--6. _Gray tacking_--Gray took.

114, l. 2. _had his fortificatioun_--had fortification.--5. _so much attend_--so attend.--7, 8. _play_ the good servant unto him, was reputed his enemy.--17. _thei war_ no more then 300.--(_In the margin_,) As they went to Dundee, they said they were going to burn the readers of the New Testament, and that they would stick to the Old, for Luther, said they, had made the New.

115, l. 7. _to have_ kept.--(8. prevented, _i.e._ antic.i.p.ated.)--9.

_thare_ friend.--13. _was_ sent to the Bischop of Saint Andrews, the Abbot of Paisley.--20. _war_ on the place.

116, l. 1. _ane certane_ number.--7. _whether to_--whereto.--19. _his craft_ perswaded.

119, l. 6. _ower the craig_--over the wall.--8. _broke his craig_--broken his owne neck.

120, l. 7. _thei_--the s.h.i.+ps.