troubles I have long feared and foreseeth. The Lord assist you with his holy spirit, and put an end to my travells, to his own glory, and to the comfort of his kirk; for assuredly, brother, this miserable life is bitter unto me. Salute your bedfellow in my name, and the rest in Christ Jesus. The faithfull here salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ rest with you for ever. Of Edinburgh the 10 of September 1568. * * * * * {398} Nº XIII. [Cald. MS. I. 380.] Extract of a Letter from John Knox to Mrs Anne Locke, dated 6th April, 1559. (See above, p. 253.) ―――― Your letters, dear sister, dated at Geneva the 17th of February, received I in Deepe the 17th of March. Touching my negligence in writing to you, at other times I fear it shall be little amended, except that better occasions than yet I know be offered. For oft to write when few messingers can be found is but foolishness. My remembrance of you is not yet so dead, but I trust it shall be fresh enough, albeit it be renewed be no outward tokin for one year. Of nature I am churlish, and in conditions different from many. Yet one thing I ashame not to affirme that familiarity once thoroughly contracted was never yet broken be my default. The cause may be that I have rather need of all than that any have need of me.―― * * * * * Extract of a Letter from John Knox “To a friend in England.” [Cald. II. 144.] Of Edinburgh, 19th August, 1569.