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of the period are unanimous in declaring that Knox had a stepmother.
4
Knox, Laing’s edition, iv. 78.
5
See Young’s letter, first published by Professor Hume Brown, John Knox, vol. ii. Appendix, 320-324.
6
Laing, in his Knox, vi. xxi. xxii.
7
Knox, i. 36-40. The facts are pointed out by Professor Cowan in The Athenæum, December 3, 1904, and had been recognised by Dr. Hay Fleming.
8
Beza, writing in 1580, says that study of St. Jerome and St. Augustine suggested his doubts. Icones Virorum Doctrina Simul ac Pietate Illustrium.
9
Pollen, Papal Negotiations with Mary Stuart, 428-430, 522, 524, 528.
10
Knox, vi. 172, 173.
11
Letter of Young to Beza. Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 322-24.
12
Cf. Life of George Wishart, by the Rev. Charles Rodger, 7-12 (1876).
13
Maxwell, Old Dundee, 83, 84.
14
M‘Crie’s Knox, 24 (1855).
15
“Letter to the Faithful,” cf. M‘Crie, Li 1 Inventories of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. cxxii., note 7. 2 Hume Brown, 3 Probably Mrs. Knox died in her son’s youth, and his father married again. Catholic writers of the period are unanimous in declaring that Knox had a stepmother. 4 5 See Young’s letter, first published by Professor Hume Brown, 6 Laing, in his 7 8 Beza, writing in 1580, says that study of St. Jerome and St. Augustine suggested his doubts. 9 Pollen, 10 11 Letter of Young to Beza. Hume Brown, 12 Cf. 13 Maxwell, 14 M‘Crie’s 15 “Letter to the Faithful,” 16 17 M‘Crie, 292. 18 Dr. Hay Fleming has impugned this opinion, but I am convinced by the internal evidence of tone and style in the tract; indeed, an earlier student has anticipated my idea. The tract is described by Dr. M‘Crie in his 19 Most of the gentry of Fife were in the murder or approved of it, and the castle seems to have contained quite a pleasant country-house party. They were cheered by the smiles of beauty, and in the treasurer’s accounts we learn that Janet Monypenny of Pitmilly (an estate still in the possession of her family), was “summoned for remaining in the castle, and assisting” the murderers. Dr. M‘Crie cites Janet in his list of “Scottish Martyrs and Prosecutions for Heresy” ( 20 21 22 23 Thorpe’s 24 25 Bain, 26 Bain i. 2; 27 For the offering of the papal remission to the garrison of the castle before April 2, 1547, see Stewart of Cardonald’s letter of that date to Wharton, in Bain’s 28 29 30 Odet De Selve, 31 32 33 34 Lorimer, John Knox and the Church of England, 261. 35 Ibid., 158. 36 Ibid., 156, 157. 37 Compare the preface, under the Restoration, to our existing prayer book. 38 Lorimer, John Knox and the Church of England, 98-136. 39 40 41 Ibid., iii. 122. 42 43 Lorimer, i. 162-176. 44 But,