The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

which we write, because that we hear that the said Master James, principal misguider now of Scotland, denies that he had any thing to do with the Castle of Saint Andrews, or yet that ever he was in the Galleys: among others, John Knox was in the Galleys all the Winter. Then was the joy of the Papists, both of Scotland and of France, even in full perfection; for this was their song of triumph: Priests content you now, Priests content you now, For Norman and his company have filled the Galleys foul.

which we write, because that we heare that the said Master Iames, principall misguider now of Scotland, denies that he had any thing to do with the Castle of Saint Andrewes, or yet that ever he was in the Galleys: among others, Iohn Knox was in the Galleys all the Winter. Then was the joy of the Papists, both of Scotland and of France, even in full perfection; for this was their song of triumph: Priests content you now, Priests content you now, For Norman and his company have fill'd the Gallies fow.

The Pope wrote Letters to the King of France, and so did he to the ⟨p. 85⟩Governor of Scotland, thanking him heartily for taking pains to revenge the death of his kind creature the Cardinal of Scotland, desiring them to continue in their begun severity, that such things thereafter should not be attempted. So were all those that were deprehended in the Castle, condemned to perpetual prison: And the ungodly judged, That after this, Christ Jesus should never triumph in Scotland. On thing we cannot pass by: From Scotland was sent a famous Clerk (laugh not Reader) M. John Hamilton of Milburne, with credit to the King of France, and unto the Cardinal of Loraine (and yet he had neither French nor Latin, and some say his Scottish tongue was not very good.) The sum of his Negotiation was, That those of the Castle should be sharply handled: In the which Suit he was heard with favour, and was dispatched from the Court of France with Letters, and great credit, which that famous Clerk forgot by the way. For passing up to the Mountain of Dumbarton, before his letters were delivered, he brake his neck, and so God took away a proud ignorant enemy. But now to our History. These things against promise (for Princes have no Fidelity further then for their own advantage) done at Roan,