{0a} Inventories of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. cxxii., note 7.

{0b} Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 320-324.

{2a} Probably Mrs. Knox died in her son’s youth, and his father married again.  Catholic writers of the period are unanimous in declaring that Knox had a stepmother.

{2b} Knox, Laing’s edition, iv. 78.

{4} See Young’s letter, first published by Professor Hume Brown, John Knox, vol. ii.  Appendix, 320-324.

{5} Laing, in his Knox, vi. xxi. xxii.

{6} Knox, i. 36-40.  The facts are pointed out by Professor Cowan in The Athenaeum, December 3, 1904, and had been recognised by Dr. Hay Fleming.

{7} Beza, writing in 1580, says that study of St. Jerome and St. Augustine suggested his doubts.  Icones Virorum Doctrina Simul ac Pietate Illustrium.

{9} Pollen, Papal Negotiations with Mary Stuart, 428-430, 522, 524, 528.

{10} Knox, vi. 172, 173.

{12} Letter of Young to Beza.  Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 322-24.

{15a} Cf.  Life of George Wishart, by the Rev. Charles Rodger, 7-12 (1876).

{15b} Maxwell, Old Dundee, 83, 84.

{17} M’Crie’s Knox, 24 (1855).

{18a} “Letter to the Faithful,” cf.  M’Crie, Life of John Knox, 292.

{18b} Knox, vi. 229.

{19} M’Crie, 292.

{20} Dr. Hay Fleming has impugned this opinion, but I am convinced by the internal evidence of tone and style in the tract; indeed, an earlier student has anticipated my idea.  The tract is described by Dr. M’Crie in his Life of Knox, 326-327 (1855).

{22} Most of the gentry of Fife were in the murder or approved of it, and the castle seems to have contained quite a pleasant country-house party.  They were cheered by the smiles of beauty, and in the treasurer’s accounts we learn that Janet Monypenny of Pitmilly (an estate still in the possession of her family), was “summoned for remaining in the castle, and assisting” the murderers.  Dr. M’Crie cites Janet in his list of “Scottish Martyrs and Prosecutions for Heresy” (Life of Knox, 315).  This martyr was a cousin, once removed, of the murdered ecclesiastic.

{23a} Knox, Laing’s edition, i. 180.

{23b} Knox, i. 182.  “The siege continued to near the end of January.”  “The truce was of treacherous purpose,” i. 183.

{24} Knox, i. 203-205.

{25a} Thorpe’s Calendar, i. 60; Register Privy Council, i. 57, 58; Tytler, vi. 8 (1837).

{25b} State Papers, Scotland, Thorpe, i. 61.

{25c} Bain, Calendar of Scottish Papers, 1547-69, i.  I; Tytler, iii. 51 (1864).

{26a} Bain i. 2; Knox, i. 182, 183.

{26b} For the offering of the papal remission to the garrison of the castle before April 2, 1547, see Stewart of Cardonald’s letter of that date to Wharton, in Bain’s Calendar of Scottish Papers, 1547-69, i. 4-5.

{27a} John Knox, i. 80.