Knox, John, approximately 1514-1572; Reformation -- Scotland
On June 29 the General Assembly, through Knox probably, drew up the
address to the Queen, threatening her and the country with the wrath of
God on her Mass, which, she is assured, is peculiarly distasteful to the
Deity. The brethren are deeply disappointed that she does not attend
their sermons, and ventures to prefer "your ain preconceived vain
opinion." They insist that adulterers must be punished with death, and
they return to their demands for the poor and the preachers. A new
rising is threatened if wicked men trouble the ministers and disobey the
Superintendents.
Lethington and Knox had one of their usual disputes over this manifesto;
the Secretary drew up another. "Here be many fair words," said the Queen
on reading it; "I cannot tell what the hearts are." {220a} She later
found out the nature of Lethington's heart, a pretty black one. The
excesses of the Guises in France were now the excuse or cause of the
postponement of Elizabeth's meeting with Mary. The Queen therefore now
undertook a northern progress, which had been arranged for in January,
about the time when Lord James was made Earl of Moray. {220b}
He could not "brook" the Earldom of Moray before the Earl of Huntly was
put down, Huntly being a kind of petty king in the east and north. There
is every reason to suppose that Mary understood and utterly distrusted
Huntly, who, though the chief Catholic in the country, had been a traitor
whenever occasion served for many a year. One of his sons, John, in
July, wounded an Ogilvy in Edinburgh in a quarrel over property. This
affair was so managed as to drive Huntly into open rebellion, neither
Mary nor her brother being sorry to take the opportunity.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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