The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Great search was made through the whole Country for them. But it was Gods good pleasure so to conduct them, that they escaped the hands of the faithless, albeit it was with long travel, and great pain and poverty sustained; for the French boy left them, and took with him the small money that they had: And so neither having money, nor knowledge of the Country. And farther, fearing that the boy should discover them (as that in very deed he did) they purposed to divide themselves, to change their garments, and to go in sundry parts. The two brethren, Will. and Rob. Leslie (who now are become,¹ the said Robert especially, enemies to Christ Jesus, and unto all virtue) came to Roan; Will. Kirkcaldy, and Peter Carmichell, in beggars garment came to Conquet; and by the space of 12 or 13 weeks they travelled as poor Mariners, from Port to Port, till at length they gat a French Ship, landed in the West of Scotland, and from thence came to England, where they met before them the said Jo. Knox, who that same Winter was delivered, and Alexander Clerk in his company. The said John was first appointed Preacher to Berwick, then to Newcastle, last he was called to London, and to the South part of England, where he remained till the death of King Edward the sixth. When he left England, he then passed to Geneva, and there remained at his privy study, till that he was called by the Congregation that then was assembled at Frankfort, to be Preacher to them: which Vocation he obeyed (albeit unwillingly) at the commandment of that notable servant of God, John Calvin: At Frankfort he remained, till that some of the learned (whose names we suppress) more given to unprofitable Ceremonies, then to sincerity of Religion began to quarrel with the said John; and because they despaired to prevail before the Magistrate there,² for the establishing of their corruptions, they accused him of treason committed against the Emperor, and against their Sovereign Queen Mary; That in his Admonition to England he called the one little inferior to Nero, and the other more cruel then Jezebel;

Great search was made thorow the whole Countrey for them. But it was Gods good pleasure so to conduct them, that they escaped the hands of the faithlesse, albeit it was with long travell, and great pain and poverty sustained; for the French boy left them, and took with him the small money that they had: And so neither having money, nor knowledge of the Countrey. And farther, fearing that the boy should discover them (as that in very deed he did) they purposed to divide themselves, to change their garments, and to go in sundry parts. The two brethren, Will. and Rob. Leslie (who now are become,