The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 | Page 4

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Congregation at Geneva, and came to Dieppe; but finding letters of an
opposite tenor, dissuading him from coming till a more favourable
opportunity, after a time he returned again to Geneva.
In May, his son Nathaniel was born at Geneva, and was baptized on the
23d, William Whittingham, afterwards Dean of Durham, being
god-father.
On the 16th of December, Knox and Goodman still continued to be
ministers of the English Congregation at Geneva.
[SN: 1558.]
April. Mary Queen of Scots was married, at Paris, to Francis, Dauphin
of France.
In this year Knox republished, with additions, his Letter to the Queen
Regent; and also his Appellation from the cruel sentence of the Bishops
and Clergy of Scotland; and his First Blast of the Trumpet against the
Regiment of Women.
In November, his son Eleazar was born at Geneva, and was baptized on
the 29th, Myles Coverdale, formerly Bishop of Exeter, being witness or
god-father.
November 17. Upon the death of Mary Queen of England, Elizabeth
ascended the throne.

On the 16th December, Knox and Goodman were again re-elected
ministers of the English Congregation.
[SN: 1559.]
January 7. Knox took his final departure from Geneva, in consequence
of an invitation to return to Scotland; and was on that occasion
honoured with the freedom of the city.
In March, he arrived at Dieppe, and finding that the English
Government refused to grant him a safeconduct, on the 22d April he
embarked for Leith, and reached Edinburgh on the 2d May. During that
month, the Queen Regent published a Declaration against the
Protestants, and the Lords of the Congregation sent a deputation to
remonstrate; but their remonstrance being despised, they took arms in
self-defence.
June 11. Knox preached in St. Andrews; and at Perth on the 25th, when
the populace defaced several of the Churches or Monasteries in that
city.
July 7. He was elected Minister of Edinburgh. Owing to the troubles,
within a brief space he was obliged to relinquish his charge; but he
continued his labours elsewhere for a time, chiefly at St. Andrews.
July 10. On the death of Henry II. of France, his son Francis, who had
espoused Mary Queen of Scots, and had obtained the Matrimonial
Crown of Scotland in November 1558, at the age of sixteen, ascended
the throne of France.
August 1. The Protestants assembled at Stirling, and having resolved to
solicit aid from England, on the 3d of that month Knox proceeded to
Berwick to hold a conference with Sir James Crofts. In this month, he
sent Calvin a favourable report of his labours since his arrival in
Scotland: Calvin's answer to this communication is dated in November.
September 20. Knox's Wife and children, accompanied by Christopher
Goodman, arrived in Edinburgh.

October 18. The Protestants entered Edinburgh, while the Queen
Regent retired to Leith, with the French troops which had come to her
aid.
[SN: 1560.]
February 27. A treaty concluded between England and the Lords of the
Congregation. The English fleet blockaded the port of Leith, and
furnished reinforcements, their troops at the same time having entered
Scotland.
April. At the end of this month, Knox had returned to Edinburgh. His
work on Predestination was published this year at Geneva.
June 10. The Queen Regent died in the Castle of Edinburgh. Articles of
Peace were concluded in July.
August 1. The Scotish Parliament assembled; and, on the 17th, the
Confession of Faith was ratified, and the Protestant religion formally
established.
December 5. Francis II. of France, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots,
died.
December 20. The first meeting of the General Assembly was held at
Edinburgh.
At the end of this year, Knox's Wife died, leaving him the two sons
above mentioned.
[SN: 1561.]
An invitation having been sent by the Protestant Nobility to their young
Queen, to revisit Scotland, she arrived from France, and assumed the
Government, on the 19th of August.
[SN: 1562.]
May. Knox engaged in a dispute at Maybole, with Quintin Kennedy,

Abbot of Crossragwell; of which dispute he published an account in the
following year.
December. He was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, on
account of a circular letter which he had addressed to the chief
Protestants, in virtue of a commission granted to him by the General
Assembly.
[SN: 1563.]
The town of Edinburgh formed only one parish. Knox, when elected
Minister, had the assistance of John Cairns as Reader. John Craig,
minister of the Canongate or Holyrood, had been solicited to become
his colleague, in April 1562; but his appointment did not take place till
June 1563.
[SN: 1564.]
March. Knox married to his second wife, Margaret Stewart, daughter of
Andrew Lord Ochiltree.
June 30. He was appointed by the General Assembly to visit the
churches in Aberdeen and the North of Scotland. The following
Assembly,