John Knox and the Reformation
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Lang Andrew. John Knox and the Reformation
CHAPTER I: ANCESTRY, BIRTH, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT: 1513(?) -1546
CHAPTER II: KNOX, WISHART, AND THE MURDER OF BEATON: 1545-1546
CHAPTER III: KNOX IN ST. ANDREWS CASTLE: THE GALLEYS: 1547-1549
CHAPTER IV: KNOX IN ENGLAND: THE BLACK RUBRIC: EXILE: 1549-1554
CHAPTER V: EXILE: APPEALS FOR A PHINEHAS, AND A JEHU: 1554
CHAPTER VI: KNOX IN THE ENGLISH PURITAN TROUBLES AT FRANKFORT: 1554-1555
CHAPTER VII: KNOX IN SCOTLAND: LETHINGTON: MARY OF GUISE: 1555-1556
CHAPTER VIII: KNOX’S WRITINGS FROM ABROAD: BEGINNING OF THE SCOTTISH REVOLUTION, 1556-1558
CHAPTER IX: KNOX ON THE ANABAPTISTS: HIS APPEAL TO ENGLAND: 1558-1559
CHAPTER X: KNOX AND THE SCOTTISH REVOLUTION, 1559
CHAPTER XI: KNOX’S INTRIGUES, AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THEM, 1559
CHAPTER XII: KNOX IN THE WAR OF THE CONGREGATION: THE REGENT ATTACKED: HER DEATH: CATHOLICISM ABOLISHED, 1559-1560
CHAPTER XIII: KNOX AND THE BOOK OF DISCIPLINE
CHAPTER XIV: KNOX AND QUEEN MARY, 1561
CHAPTER XV: KNOX AND QUEEN MARY (continued), 1561-1564
CHAPTER XVI: KNOX AND QUEEN MARY (continued): 1563-1564
CHAPTER XVII: KNOX AND QUEEN MARY (continued), 1564-1567
CHAPTER XVIII: THE LAST YEARS OF KNOX: 1567-1572
APPENDIX A: ALLEGED PERFIDY OF MARY OF GUISE
APPENDIX B: FORGERY PROCURED BY MARY OF GUISE
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“November 24, 1572.
“John Knox, minister, deceased, who had, as was alleged, the most part of the blame of all the sorrows of Scotland since the slaughter of the late Cardinal.”
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The almost incredible ignorance and profligacy of the higher Scottish clergy (with notable exceptions) in Knox’s youth, are not matter of controversy. They are as frankly recognised by contemporary Catholic as by Protestant authors. In the very year of the destruction of the monasteries (1559) the abuses are officially stated, as will be told later, by the last Scottish Provincial Council. Though three of the four Scottish universities were founded by Catholics, and the fourth, Edinburgh, had an endowment bequeathed by a Catholic, the clerical ignorance, in Knox’s time, was such that many priests could hardly read.
If more evidence is needed as to the debauched estate of the Scottish clergy, we obtain it from Mary of Guise, widow of James V., the Regent then governing Scotland for her child, Mary Stuart. The Queen, in December 1555, begged Pius IV. to permit her to levy a tax on her clergy, and to listen to what Cardinal Sermoneta would tell him about their need of reformation. The Cardinal drew a terrible sketch of the nefarious lives of “every kind of religious women” in Scotland. They go about with their illegal families and dower their daughters out of the revenues of the Church. The monks, too, have bloated wealth, while churches are allowed to fall into decay. “The only hope is in the Holy Father,” who should appoint an episcopal commission of visitation. For about forty years prelates have been alienating Church lands illegally, and churches and monasteries, by the avarice of those placed in charge, are crumbling to decay. Bishops are the chief dealers in cattle, fish, and hides, though we have, in fact, good evidence that their dealings were very limited, “sma’ sums.”
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