[937] In MS. G, "in December 1563."
[938] Knox states that his examination before the Privy Council was the middle of December. Randolph, in one of his dispatches to Cecil, on the 21st December, mentions that the Lords had assembled for three causes, the last of which was, "To take order with Knox and his faction, who intended, by a mutinous assembly made by his letter before, to have rescued two of their brethren, (viz. Armstrong and Cranston,) from course of lawe, for usinge an outrage upon a Priest saying Masse to the Queen's household at Halliruydhous." (Keith's Hist., vol. ii. p. 210.)
[939] In MS. G, "the brethren of the Toun."
[940] In MS. 1566, "hir placebo boyis."
[941] The Letter on which this accusation was founded, is printed at page 395.
[942] In MS. 1566, "folk."
[943] In MS. 1566, "dalectiane."
[944] In MS. G. "a preparatyve."
[945] In MS. G, 1566, "is in."
[946] This marginal note is omitted in MS G.