Contemporary narratives by Thomas Smelton and Richard Bannatyne give an account of the last days of this man's life.
Contemporary narratives by Thomas Smelton and Richard Bannatyne give an account of the last days of this man's life. His public religious and political stances became solidified during a dinner given by his friend Erskine of Dun, though they had already been hardened after his purported role in influencing the murder of Cardinal Beaton and his subsequent imprisonment and exile. Among his works are a "History," of a religious movement in his nation completed by George Buchanan, and the chief contribution to the first and second Book of Discipline, which laid out organization for his church. Better known are his attacks on the "dregs of Popery" in his "Brief Exhortation to England" and his vicious attack on Mary of Guise and Mary Tudor in First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. FTP, name this leader of the Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
Contemporary narratives by Thomas Smelton and Richard Bannatyne give an account of the last days of this man's life.
John {Knox}