The Ultramontane Party--The Abbot of Paisley--Liberation of the Cardinal--His Intrigues--Insults offered to the English Ambassador--Refusal of the Regent to deliver the Hostages--Armed Gatherings--Weakness of the Regent--His Abjuration before the Cardinal--Coronation of Mary Stuart--Declaration of War in Scotland by Henry VIII.--Earl of Lennox--Triumph of the Cardinal--William Anderson, Hellen Stirke, James Raveleson, and Robert Lamb--Sentence of death passed on them--Fruitless Intercession--Affecting Death of Hellen Stirke--The English Fleet at Leith--Landing of the English Army--Capture and Pillage of Edinburgh--Plans of Henry VIII. postponed 166 CHAPTER XIV. WISHART--HIS MINISTRY AND HIS MARTYRDOM. (SUMMER OF 1544 TO MARCH 1546.) Preaching of Wishart at Dundee--The Churches closed against him--Open-air Preaching--The Plague of Dundee--Wishart’s Return thither--Attempt of a Priest to Assassinate him--Snares laid for him--His Announcement of his approaching Death--Wishart joined by Knox--Approach of Wishart to Edinburgh--His redoubled Zeal--Desertion of his Friends--His last Preaching--His Arrest--Given up to the Cardinal--His Trial opposed by the Regent--Persistence of the Cardinal--The Ecclesiastical Court--The Accuser Lauder--Insults--Calumnies--Condemnation--Refusal of the Sacrament--A true Supper--Wishart’s Address to the People--His Martyrdom 185 CHAPTER XV. CONSPIRACY AGAINST BEATOUN--HIS DEATH. (MARCH TO MAY 1546.) Triumph of the Cardinal--Conspiracy of his Enemies--Meeting of the Conspirators at St. Andrews--Seizure of the Castle--The Cardinal’s Servants driven away--Murder of Beatoun--Wishart’s Sentence--Siege of the Castle--Capitulation of the Conspirators--Grounds of the Triumph of the Reformation in Scotland--Two Kings and Two Kingdoms--Priest and Pastor 207 BOOK XI. CALVIN AND THE PRINCIPLES OF HIS REFORM. CHAPTER I. CALVIN AT GENEVA AND IN THE PAYS DE VAUD. (1536.)