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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 249 one of his most ardent friends and disciples there, Emery Tylney, still copiously testifies, in what is now the principal record and extant biography of Wishart, — still preserved in Foxe's Martyrology. In consequence of the encouraging prospects that had risen in Scotland, Wishart returned thither in 1546, and began preaching, at last publicly, in the streets of Dundee, with great acceptance from the better part of the population there. Perils and loud menacings from official quarters were not wanting; finally Wishart had moved to other safer places of opportunity ; thence back to Dundee, where pestilence was raging ; and there, on impulse of his own con- science only, had * planted himself between the living and the dead/ and been to many a terrestrial help and comfort, — not to speak of a celestial. The pest abating at Dundee, he went to East Lothian; and there, with Haddington for head-quarters, and some principal gentry, especially the Lairds of Langniddry and Ormiston, protecting and encouraging, and beyond all others with John Knox, tutor to these gentlemen's sons, attending him, with the liveliest appreciation and most admiring s}Tnpathy, — indeed acting, it