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{333b} Dames Illustres, pp. 358–360.

{334} Works of John Knox, iv. 349.

{341} M‘Crie’s Life of Knox, ii. 41.

{342} Described by Calvin in a letter to Cecil, Knox’s Works, vol. iv.

{344} It was anonymously published, but no one seems to have been in doubt about its authorship; he might as well have set his name to it, for all the good he got by holding it back.

{345a} Knox’s Works, iv. 358.

{345b} Strype’s Aylmer, p. 16.

{346a} It may interest the reader to know that these (so says Thomasius) are the “ipsissima verba Schlusselburgii.”

{346b} I am indebted for a sight of this book to the kindness of Mr. David Laing, the editor of Knox’s Works.

{348} Social Statics, p. 64, etc.

{349} Hallam’s Const. Hist. of England, i. 225, note m.

{352a} Knox to Mrs. Locke, 6th April 1559. Works, vi. 14.

{352b} Knox to Sir William Cecil, 10th April 1559. Works, ii. 16, or vi. 15.

{354} Knox to Queen Elizabeth, July. 20th, 1559. Works, vi. 47, or ii. 26.

{355} Knox to Queen Elizabeth, August 6th, 1561. Works, vi. 126.

{357} Knox’s Works, ii. 278–280.

{359} Calderwood’s History of the Kirk of Scotland, edition of the Wodrow Society, iii. 51–54.

{360} Bayle’s Historical Dictionary, art. Knox, remark G.

{368} Works, iv. 244.

{369a} Works, iv. 246.

{369b} Ib. iv. 225.

{371a} Works, iv. 245.

{371b} Ib. iv. 221.

{373a} Works, vi. 514.

{373b} Ib. iii. 338.

{373c} Ib. iii. 352, 353.

{374a} Works, iii. 350.

{374b} Ib. iii. 390, 391.

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