Название: John Knox and the Reformation
Автор: Lang Andrew
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Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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These statements were dogmatic, and the reverse of conciliatory. One should not, in attempting to convert any person, begin by reviling his religion. Knox adopted the same method with Mary Stuart: the method is impossible. It is not to be marvelled at if the Regent did style the letter a “pasquil.”
Knox took his revenge in his “History” by repeating a foolish report that Mary of Guise had designed to poison her late husband, James V. “Many whisper that of old his part was in the pot, and that the suspicion thereof caused him to be inhibited the Queen’s company, while the Cardinal got his secret business sped of that gracious lady either by day or night.” 64 He styled her, as we saw, “a wanton widow”; he hinted that she was the mistress of Cardinal Beaton; he made similar insinuations about her relations with d’Oysel (who was “a secretis mulierum”); he said, as we have seen, that she only waited her chance to cut the throats of all suspected Protestants; he threw doubt on the legitimacy of her daughter, Mary Stuart; and he constantly accuses her of treachery, as will appear, when the charge is either doubtful, or, as far as I can ascertain, absolutely false.
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1
Inventories of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. cxxii., note 7.
2
Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 320-324.
3
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.
4
Knox, Laing’s edition, iv. 78.
5
See Young’s letter, first published by Professor Hume Brown, John Knox, vol. ii. Appendix, 320-324.
6
Laing, in his Knox, vi. xxi. xxii.
7
Knox, i. 36-40. The facts are pointed out by Professor Cowan in The Athenæum, December 3, 1904, and had been recognised by Dr. Hay Fleming.
8
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.
11
Letter of Young to Beza. Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 322-24.
12
Cf. Life of George Wishart, by the Rev. Charles Rodger, 7-12 (1876).
13
Maxwell, Old Dundee, 83, 84.
14
M‘Crie’s Knox, 24 (1855).
15
“Letter to the Faithful,” cf. M‘Crie, Li 1 Inventories of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. cxxii., note 7. 2 Hume Brown, 3 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. 4 5 See Young’s letter, first published by Professor Hume Brown, 6 Laing, in his 7 8 Beza, writing in 1580, says that study of St. Jerome and St. Augustine suggested his doubts. 9 Pollen, 10 11 Letter of Young to Beza. Hume Brown, 12 Cf. 13 Maxwell, 14 M‘Crie’s 15 “Letter to the Faithful,” 16 17 M‘Crie, 292. 18 Dr. Hay Fleming has impugned this opinion,
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