Knox to Mrs. Anna Lock
LETTERS, ETC.
lo59.
VI.
Knox to Mrs. Anna Lock.
Keceaving your letters, dated at London the 1 6th of June, at the houre expressed, and finding the opportunitie of a messinger at the verie instant to depart, I could not but scrible these few words unto you, ininiediatelie after I was come frome the verie preaching place in Sanct Geil's Kirk in Edinburgh.
The whole discourse of our proceedings I have writtin to you Ijefore ; and farther ye sail understand, by this other letter directed to Adame Haliday, which ye may open, and after deliver it.
The professors are in Edinburgh.
The Queene^ is retired into Dumbar.
The fine^ is known unto God.
We meane no tumult, no alteratioun of authoritie, but onlie the reformatioun , of religioun, and sujDpressing of idolatrie.
The reasoun of Mr. y^ Coall, and your Acts of Parliament, like me both alike ;^ that v> l^,, is, nothing at all.
I wrote not onlie against Papisticall priests, but also against dissembled professours, who preferre darknesse to light, and vanitie to the truthe.
If your Eeformatioun be no better nor your Acts expresse, I repent not of my absence from England.
I have receaved no letter from you before that last, neither yitt anie knowledge of my brother, Mr. Gudman.'*
]\Iore trouble than yee see lyeth upon me.
As God worketh heere, ye sail know from time to time.
Kemember my_^weaknesse, Iaiid call earnestlie, that God, our Father through Jesus Christ, his deere and onlie Sonne, may be glorifeid in his congregatiouns.
Eest in Christ, with salutatioun to all faithfull.
From Edinburgh, the 25th of June 1559.
' Mary of Lorraine, Queen Dowager, * Christoplier Goodman, Knox's colaiid Regent of Scotland. league at Geneva.
He came to Scot- - " Fine," end. land in October following.
•'' See introductory note, sajira, \i.