Knox to the Brethren of the Congregation
LETTERS, ETC.
ter.
I kiiowe not yet her Grace's lykyuge of the matter.
She willed me to confer as I had done with her self, with my Lorde of Murraye and Lorde of Lidingeton, and desyered that no man myght be farther made of Counselle.
I accorded ther unto.
At Edenbroughe, the iiijth of September 1563.^ (The Assembly of the Lords, for three causes) .... The thyrde cawse is, that the Quene fyudethe her greeved with a letter that Mr. Knox wrote unto hys brethrene the prechers, to assyst two honest men of the Congregation, whome the Quene wolde have had punished, for troblinge a prest that, her
Grace beinge in Argile, saide masse unto the reste of her howseholde remayninge in the Abbaye of HoUie-roode howse.^
At Edenbroughe, the xxj of December 1.5G3.
For newes yt maye please your Honor to knowe, that the Lord. Treasurer of Scotlande,^ for gettinge of a woman with chylde, muste, upon Sondaye nexte, do open penance before the whole Congregation, and Mr. Knox mayke the sermonde.
Thys my Lorde" of Murraye wylled me to wryte unto your Honour for a note of our griate severitie in punyshinge of offenders.
At Edenbroughe, the last of December 15G3.
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Knox to the Brethren of the Congregation.
Wlieresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
It is not unknowen to you, deare Brethren ....
Frome Edenburgh, the ix of October 1.5G3.
[Indorsed)—Mr. Knox to the Brytherene of the Congregation.* (See vol. ii. pp. 395-397.) 1 EanJoIph had just returneil from Mr. Eobert Riulmrdson, Conimendator England to Holyrood, having been sent of St. Mary's Isle, of whom a short for by Queen Elizabeth, to receive innotice is given in the footnote, vol. i. formation from him on the subject of ]' 372.
See also a subsequent page of the Scottish Queen's marriage. the present volume.
- See Knox, vol. ii. p. 403, note 2.
* Several copies of this missive must * The person here mentioned was have been written.
One of these, un-