riest of this name among those ministering in
Dundee in 1550 ('Old Dundee prior to the Reformation,' 1891, p. 87, n.)
The _James_ Wichtand who was reader at Inchture and Kinnaird in 1574
(Wodrow Miscellany, p. 353) is said to have held a chaplaincy in Dundee
before the Reformation. But Dr Laing holds that there was a Sir _John_
Wighton, a chaplain in Dundee, who obtained the vicarage pensionary in
the parish church of Ballumby in 1538, and who appears to have been
incarcerated in St Andrews Castle in the cardinal's absence in 1543
(Laing's Knox, vi. 670).

[70] Lemon's State Papers, v. 377.

[71] Laing's Knox, i. 536. [Maxwell gives a detailed account of this
other George Wishart in his 'Old Dundee prior to the Reformation,' 1891,
pp. 91-95.]

[72] Cattley's Foxe, v. 635.

[73] Cattley's Foxe, v. 635. [Foxe is here quoting the account in the
black-letter tract printed in or about 1547, which Knox deemed important
enough to copy from Foxe into his own pages.]

[74] Gude and Godlie Ballatis, 1897, p. 180.

[75] Lorimer's Scottish Reformation, 1860, pp. 153, 154.

[76] Wedderburn and Wishart seem also to have been acquainted with
Coverdale's Bible of 1535.

[77] See my Introduction to 'The Gude and Godlie Ballatis,' 1897, p.
xxxviii, n.

[78] No doubt the initial Catechism was in use also. It has been
conjectured that the Catechism may even have been printed separately,
and that the first part of the following entry may refer to it: "The
catechisme in two partes; the first in Scotch poetry, having a kalender
before it. The second part in Latin and Scotis prose, entituled
Catechismus ecclesiae Geneuensis.... Edinburgh: Imprinted by John Ross
for Henrie Charteris, 1574" (Dickson and Edmond's Annals of Scottish
Printing, 1890, p. 334).

[79] [Reprinted under the editorial care of Dr Mitchell in 1897 for the
Scottish Text Society.]

[80] Lorimer's Knox and the Church of England, 1875, pp. 290-292.

[81] Wodrow Miscellany, pp. 295-300.

CHAPTER V.

KNOX AS LEADER OF OUR REFORMATION.

As stated towards the close of my last lecture, the sword-bearer of
Wishart stood forth at once "to wield the spiritual sword which had
fallen from the master's grasp, and to wield it with a vigour and
trenchant execution superior even to his."

At this time Knox was full forty years of age, having been born at
Giffordgate, in Haddington, in 1505. He probably received the rudiments
of his education there, and matricula