Footnotes
[{0a}] Inventories of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. cxxii., note 7.
[{0b}] Hume Brown, John Knox, ii. 320-324.
[{2a}] Probably Mrs. Knox died in her son’s youth, and his father married again. Catholic writers of the period are unanimous in declaring that Knox had a stepmother.
[{2b}] Knox, Laing’s edition, iv. 78.
[{4}] See Young’s letter, first published by Professor Hume Brown, John Knox, vol. ii. Appendix, 320-324.
[{5}] Laing, in his Knox, vi. xxi. xxii.
[{6}] Knox, i. 36-40. The facts are pointed out by Professor Cowan in The Athenæum, December 3, 1904, and had been recognised by Dr. Hay Fleming.
[{7}] Beza, writing in 1580, says that study of St. Jerome and St. Augustine suggested his doubts. Icones Virorum Doctrina Simul ac Pietate Illustrium.
[{9}] Pollen, Papal Negotiations with Mary Stuart, 428-430, 522, 524, 528.