_Dean_: ‘I gave them again to them that had more mister [need] than I’ _Accuser_: ‘Thou false heretic! thou learned all thy parishioners to say the Paternoster, the creed, and the Ten Commandments _in English_.’ _Dean_: ‘Brother, my people are so rude and ignorant they understand no Latin, so that my conscience provoked me to learn them the words of their salvation in English, and the Ten Commandments which are the law of God, whereby they might observe the same. I teached the belief, whereby they might know their faith in God and Jesus Christ his Son, and of his death and resurrection. Moreover I teached them and learned them the Lord’s own prayer in the mother-tongue, to the effect that they might know how they should pray.’ _Accuser_: ‘Why did you that? By our acts and ordinances of our holy father the pope?’ _Dean_: ‘I follow the acts of our master and Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the apostle Paul, who saith that he had rather speak five words to the understanding and edifying of his people than ten thousand in a strange tongue which they understand not.’ _Accuser_: ‘Where finds thou that?’ _Dean_: ‘In my book here, in my sleeve.’ At these words the accuser, rushing at a bound on the dean, snatched from his hands the New Testament, and holding it up, said with a loud voice, ‘Behold, sirs, he has the book of heresy in his sleeve that makes all the din and play in our kirk.’ _Dean_: ‘Brother, ye could say better if ye pleased, nor to call the book of the Evangel of Jesus Christ the book of heresy.’ ‘It is enough to burn thee for,’ said the accuser, coolly.[216] Five of these pious men were immediately condemned to death and were taken the same day to the castle hill, where the piles were ready; and the king, following the example of Francis I., was present with his court at this cruel execution.[217] Those who went first to the stake piously and wonderfully consoled those who were to follow them. ‘At the beginning of 1539,’ says Buchanan, ‘many suspected of Lutheranism were arrested; five were burnt at the end of February, nine recanted, and others were sentenced to banishment.’[218] The same day orders were issued to confiscate the property of those who had been declared heretics.[219] The king, the cardinals, and their subordinates took their reward out of the penalties. [Sidenote: GEORGE BUCHANAN.]