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Rh regarded him. He now undertook a journey through Scotland, and in less than two months he visited the principal towns, arousing the attention, and opening the eyes of the inhahitants to the errors by whieh they were deluded. After completing this tour, he returned to St. Andrews. Meantime it beeame evident, that they could not long maintain the struggle in which they were engaged. Franee had already sent, and was preparing to send more, troops to oppose them, and being unable to keep the field, they resolved to divide, till they obtained the assistanee promised them by Elizabeth,-one half of the eouneil remaining at Glasgow, the other at St. Andrews. Knox was appointed to attend the latter, and the Freneh having penetrated into Fife early in the year 1560, he encouraged that small band whieh, under the Earl of Arran, resisted their progress, until the appearance of the English fleet obliged them to retreat. In the beginning of April, the English army entered Seotland, and the Freneh troops having retired within the fortifications at Leith, were invested by sea and land. The Queen-regent died in Edinburgh Castle during the siege, and the ambassadors of Franee were obliged to agree to a treaty, which provided that the Freneh troops should be immediately removed from Seotland, and that an amnesty be granted to all who had been engaged in resisting the measures of the Regent. This treaty, which obviated hostilities, left the power in the hands of the Protestants, and put an end to the Roman Catholie religion in Seotland. After the proclamation of peaee, Knox resumed his station as minister of Edinburgh, and employed himself in composing the Confession of Faith. Abont this time the Protestant nobility invited their young Queen to assume the reins of government, and on the 19th of August, 1561, she arrived in Seotland. Edueated in the Roman Catholie religion, she determined to