The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

so did not the devil cease to inflame the malice of the Queen, and of the Papists with her. For that after her coming to the Abbey of Halyrud-house, she caused Mass to be said first in her own Chapel, and after in the Abbey where the Altars before were cast down. She discharged the Common-Prayers, and forbade to give any portion to such as were the principal young men who read them.¹ Her malice extended in like manner to Cambu•kenneth, for there she discharged the portions of as many of the Canons as had forsaken Papistry: She gave commandment and inhibition, that the Abbot of Lyndors should be answered of any part of his living in the North, because he had submitted himself to the Congregation, and had put some Reformation to his place: By her consent and procurement was the Preachers Chair broken in the Church of Leith, and Idolatry was erected in the same, where it was before suppressed. Her French Captains, with their Soldiers in great companies, in time of Preaching and Prayers resorted to Saint Giles Church in Edinburgh, and made their common deambulation therein with such loud talking, as no perfect audience could be had. And although the Minister was there-through oft times compelled to cry out on them, Praying to God to rid them of such Locusts, they nevertheless continued still in their wicked purpose devised and ordained by the Queen, to have drawn our brethren of Edinburgh and them in cumber, so that she might have had any coloured occasion to have broken the League with them. Yet by Gods grace they behaved themselves so that she could find no fault in them,² albeit in all these things before-named, and in every one of them she is justly accounted to have gain-said the said appointment. We pass over the oppressing of our brethren in particular, which had been sufficient to have proved the appointment to have been plainly violated. For the Lord Seaton, without any occasion offered unto him, brake a chase upon Alexander Whitlam, as he came from Preston, accompanied with M. William Knox, towards Edinburgh, and ceased not to pursue him, till he came to the Town of Ormeston. And this he did, supposing that the said Alexander had been John Knox.

so did not the devil cease to inflame the malice of the Queen, and of the Papists with her. For that after her coming to the Abbey of Halyrud-house, she caused Masse to be said first in her own Chappell, and after in the Abbey where the Altars before were cast down. She discharged the Common-Prayers, and forbade to give any portion to such as were the principall young men who read them.