June 10. The Queen Regent died in the Castle of Edinburgh. Articles of Peace were concluded in July.
August 1. The Scotish Parliament assembled; and, on the 17th, the Confession of Faith was ratified, and the Protestant religion formally established.
December 5. Francis II. of France, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots, died.
December 20. The first meeting of the General Assembly was held at Edinburgh.
At the end of this year, Knox's Wife died, leaving him the two sons above mentioned.
1561.
An invitation having been sent by the Protestant Nobility to their young Queen, to revisit Scotland, she arrived from France, and assumed the Government, on the 19th of August.
1562.
May. Knox engaged in a dispute at Maybole, with Quintin Kennedy, Abbot of Crossragwell; of which dispute he published an account in the following year.
December. He was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, on account of a circular letter which he had addressed to the chief Protestants, in virtue of a commission granted to him by the General Assembly.