[282] Luther says so himself; cf. letter to Lange of April 13th, 1519; De Wette, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, Sendschreiben, etc. (Berlin, 1825-28) i. 255; and Herminjard, Correspondance des Réformateurs dans les pays de langue française (Geneva and Paris, 1866-97), i. 47, 48.
[283] These theses were translated from the Latin into the vernacular by John Firth, and published under the title of Patrick’s Places. They are printed in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, and by Knox in his History of the Reformation in Scotland; The Works of John Knox collected and edited by David Laing (Edinburgh, 1846-64), i. 19, ff. For Patrick Hamilton, cf. Lorimer, Patrick Hamilton, the first Preacher and Martyr of the Scottish Reformation (Edinburgh, 1857).
[284] Buchanan, Rerum Scoticarum Historia, xiv. (p. 277 in Ruddiman’s edition).
[285] Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 371, ii. 443.
[286] The Works of John Knox, collected and edited by David Laing (Edinburgh, 1846-64), i. 218.
[287] The Works of John Knox, etc. i. 125-45.
[288] The Works of John Knox, etc. i. 192.
[289] Dr. Hay Fleming has settled the vexed question of the date of Knox’s birth in his article in the Bookman for Sept. 1905, p. 193; cf. Athenæum, Nov. 5th and Dec. 3rd, 1904.
[290] Works of John Knox, etc. i. 349.
[291] Calderwood, The History of the Kirk of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1843-49) i. 280-81.