Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- A note on the texts
- Further reading
- Principal events in Knox's life
- Biographical notes
- Abbreviations and references
- Glossary
- Part I The 1558 Tracts
- Part II Knox and Scotland 1557–1564
- Knox and the Protestant nobility, March–December 1557
- Knox to the Protestant nobility, 17 December 1557
- Letters to the regent and nobility, 22 May 1559
- The regent and the Congregation, August 1559
- The suspension of the regent, October 1559
- Knox and Mary Queen of Scots, September 1561
- The debate at the General Assembly, June 1564
- Index of scriptural citations
- Index of proper names
- Index of subjects
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
The regent and the Congregation, August 1559
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- A note on the texts
- Further reading
- Principal events in Knox's life
- Biographical notes
- Abbreviations and references
- Glossary
- Part I The 1558 Tracts
- Part II Knox and Scotland 1557–1564
- Knox and the Protestant nobility, March–December 1557
- Knox to the Protestant nobility, 17 December 1557
- Letters to the regent and nobility, 22 May 1559
- The regent and the Congregation, August 1559
- The suspension of the regent, October 1559
- Knox and Mary Queen of Scots, September 1561
- The debate at the General Assembly, June 1564
- Index of scriptural citations
- Index of proper names
- Index of subjects
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Summary
[Although the rebellion – and civil war – may be said to have begun in May 1559, neither side was in a position to force a decisive engagement that might resolve the issue. Instead, having fortified the port of Leith, the regent sought further military support from France, while the Congregation appealed for the intervention of England. The result was a temporary truce – the Appointment of Leith of 24 July 1559 – the terms of which became an immediate focus of dispute. The following extract from Knox's History (Laing MS, fos. 143r–149v; Laing, vol. I, pp. 397–412; Dickinson, vol. I, pp. 217–28) begins with a proclamation of the regent defending the arrival of French reinforcements and continues with the Congregation's response to the regent's arguments. Again, it is not clear that Knox himself was the author of the latter document, but the ‘supplement’ to the public letter, essentially a defence of the Protestant preachers’ attitude to the ‘authority’, bears distinctive Knoxian hallmarks.]
A proclamation set out by the queen regent to blind the vulgar people.
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- Knox: On Rebellion , pp. 157 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994