[269] ‘Many affirm that a dead man’s hand was made to subscribe a blank.’—Knox, Ref., p. 92. ‘Conducto Balfurio sacrificulo mercenario falsum testamentum subjecit.’—Buchanan, p. 515. Sadler, Papers, i. p. 38. Lesley, Hist., p. 169.
[270] State Papers, v. pp. 238, 240. Knox, Ref., pp. 32, 94.
[271] Spotswood, p. 71. Buchanan, Knox.
[272] State Papers, v. p. 250.
[273] Knox, Ref., p. 95. Spotswood, p. 72. McCrie, Life of Knox, p. 21. Edit. 1855.
[274] State Papers, v. p. 242.
[275] ‘Quum cardinalis non solum repugnaret sed obturbando et alios interpellando, nihil decerni pateretur.’—Buchanan, p. 517. It appears to us that Buchanan, although a contemporary and an eminent historian, is in error here. He assigns this opposition of the cardinal to the month of March in the parliament, while it is evident that it took place on January 26 at the latest.
[276] ‘Communi prope omnium consensu cardinalis in cubiculum seorsum seclusus est.’—Buchanan, ibid.
[277] State Papers, v. p. 242 n.
[278] Calvin, Harm. de Matth., xii. 29.