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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 267 Bay, part of a miglity French fleet with 6,000 hardy, experienced French soldiers, and their necessary stores and furnitures, — come with full purpose to repair the damages Protector Somerset had done by Pinky Battle, and to pack the Enghsh well home ; and, indeed, privately, to secure Scotland for them- selves and their Guises, and keep it as an open French road into England thenceforth. They first tried Broughty Castle Avith a few shots, where the English had loft a garrison, which gave them due return ; hut without farther result there. Knox's galley seems to have been lying not far from Broughty ; Knox himself, with a notable * Maister James Balfour ' close by him ; utterly foredone in body, and thought by his comrades to be dying, when the following small, but noteworthy passage occurred. 'him' {Knox) 'would often times ask his judgment, 'Whose answer was ever, fra the day that they ' entered in the gallayis, " That God wald deHver
 * The said Maister James and John Knox being
 * intil one galley and being wondrous familiar with
 * *'If he thought that ever they should be delivered?"