The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

IN the Records of Glasgow is found mention of one whose name was James Resby, ¹an Englishman by Birth,² Scholar to Wycliffe; He was accused as an Heretic, by one Lawrence Lindors in Scotland, and burnt for having said, That the Pope was not the Vicar of Christ, and that a man of wicked life was not to be acknowledged for Pope. This fell out, Anno 1422. Farther our Chronicles make mention,³ That in the days of King James the first, about the year of God 1431. was deprehended in the University of Saint Andrews, ⁴one named Paul Craw, a Bohemia, who was accused of Heresy,⁵ before such as then were called Doctors of Theology. His accusation consisted principally, That he followed John H•s and Wycliffe, in the opinion of the Sacrament; Who denied that the substance of Bread and Wine were changed by virtue of any words; Or that Confession should be made to Priests; or yet Prayers to Saints departed: While that God gave him grace to resist them, and not to consent to their impiety; He was committed to the secular Judge (for our Bishops following Pilate, who both did condemn, and also wash his hands) who condemned him to the fire, in the which he was consumed in the said City of Saint Andrews, about the time afore written. And to declare themselves to be the generation of Satan, who from the beginning hath been enemy to the Truth, and he that desireth the same to be hid from the knowledge of men, They put a ball of Brass in his mouth, to the end he should not give Confession of his Faith to the people; neither yet that they should understand the defence which he had against their unjust accusation and condemnation. Both these godly men Resby and Craw, suffered Martyrdom for Christ his Truth, by Henry Ward-Law, Bishop of Saint Andrews, whom the Prelates place amongst their Worthies▪

IN the Records of Glasgow is found mention of one whose name was Iames Resby,