A47584:364
The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Magistrate perceiving their malice, and fearing that the said John should fall in the hands of his accusators, by one mean or by other gave ⟨p. 94⟩advertisement secretly to him to depart their City, for they could not save him, if he were required by the Emperor, or by the Queen of England in the Emperors name. And so the said John returned to Geneva, from thence to Dieppe, and thereafter to Scotland, as we shall after hear.
The Magistrate perceiving their malice, and fearing that the said Iohn should fall in the hands of his accusators, by one mean or by other gave ⟨p. 94⟩advertisement secretly to him to depart their City, for they could not save him, if he were required by the Emperour, or by the Queen of England in the Emperours name. And so the said Iohn returned to Geneva, from thence to Diep, and thereafter to Scotland, as we shall after hear.
The time and that Winter that the Galleys remained in Scotland, were delivered M. James Balfour his two brethren, David and Gilbert, John Auchinleck, John Sibald, John Grey, William Guthrie, and Stevin Bell. The Gentlemen that remained in prisons, were by the procurement of the Queen Dowager to the Cardinal of Loraine, and to the King of France, set at liberty in the month of July, 1anno 1550. who shortly thereafter were called to Scotland, their peace proclaimed, and they themselves restored to their lands, in despite of their enemies. And that was done in hatred of Duke Hamilton, because that then France began to have the Regiment of Scotland in their own hands.2 Howsoever it was, God made the hearts of their enemies to set them at liberty and freedom. There rested a number of common servants yet in the Galleys, who were all delivered upon the Contract of peace that was made betwixt France and England, after the taking of Bullen; and so was the whole company set at liberty, none perishing (no not before the world) except James Melvin, who departed from the misery of this life in the Castle of Brest in Brittany. This we write, to let the posterity to come to understand how potently God wrought in preserving and delivering of those that had but a small knowledge of his truth, and for the love of the same hazarded all. That if either we now in our days having greater light,