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The History of the Reformation in Scotland (Works, vol. 1) · John Knox
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 God'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 God'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 bloody 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, bastard 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 godlynes.--15. heirefter--heirof.--22. any joyt--one jote.--25. his rycht--his pretended right.--26. For by Goddis 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 bastard. 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 authorem 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.