The sources from which the following narrative has been derived are the splendidly edited and complete edition of Knox's Works in six volumes, by Dr. David Laing; the Memoir of the Reformer, by Dr. Thomas McCrie, forming the first volume of the collected works of that eminent theologian; the monograph by the late Professor Lorimer, D.D., entitled "John Knox and the Church of England"; and the Histories of the Period, more especially that of Scotland, by John Hill Burton, vols. iii. and iv., and that of England, by J. A. Froude, vols. v. and vi.