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12 holy words and the liberty of my tongue! It was delivered to the Queen by the earl of Glencairn, and by her to the bishop of Glasgow, (nephew of Cardinal Beaton) with this observation, "Please you, my lord. to read a pasquil, which coming to the ears of Mr Knox, was the occassion of his making a number of additions when the better was printed afterwards at Geneva.

At this time the received letters from the English church at Geneva, which had separated from the one at Frankfort commanding him, "in God's name as he was their chosen pastor, to rapair to them for their comfort." Having preached in almost every congregation, he had formerly visited, and sent his wife and mother in law before him to Dieppe, he sailed from Scotland in the month of July for Geneva. No sooner and he left the kingdom than the bishops summoned him to answer a change of heresy; and, on his non-appearance, burnt him in effigy at the cross of Edinburgh. Against this sentence, in 1558, he published his "appellation," addressed to the "Nobility and Estates of Scotland" In this companition, which has been much admired; after appealing "to a lawful and general council," and requiring of them that defence which, as princes of the people, they were bound to give him, he adds, "these things require I of your honours to he granted unto me, viz. that the doctrine which our adversaries condemn for heresy may be tried by the plain and simple word of God; that the just defences he admitted to us that sustain the battle against this pestilent battle of Antichrist; and that they be removed from judgment in our cause) seeing that our accusation is not intended against any one particular person; but against the whole kingdom which we