s History, p. 271);
but Knox says that it sat until he arrived in Scotland (Laing's Knox, i.
291); and that the date of his arrival was the 2nd of May (Ibid., i.
318, vi. 21); and an anonymous writer alleges that the council broke up
when assured that Knox had come (Wodrow Miscellany, pp. 56, 57). M'Crie
suggests that, although the Acts were concluded on the 10th of April,
the council may not have then closed (Life of Knox, 1855, p. 126, n.).]

[97] [While it is apparent from Knox's own narrative that his first
public sermon was delivered in the parish church of St Andrews (Laing's
Knox, i. 189), it is not quite so clear whether Rough addressed the call
to him in that church or in the chapel of the castle, though it rather
appears to have been in the former (Ibid., i. 186-188); and the precise
building in St Andrews in which he first celebrated the Lord's Supper
seems to me to be also uncertain (Ibid., i. 201).]

[98] Laing's Knox, i. 228.

[99] Ibid., i. 348, 349; vi. 25.

[100] [Many members of the university became Protestants. The twenty-one
men in St Andrews, whom the first General Assembly deemed qualified "for
ministreing and teaching," were with few exceptions professors, or
regents. For the number of the ecclesiastics who joined the congregation
at St Andrews in the early months of the Reformation, see _supra_, p.
13. In September, 1566, St Andrews was emphatically declared to be "the
most flourishing city as to divine and human learning in all Scotland"
(Laing's Knox, vi. 546).]

[101] Laing's Knox, vi. 78.

CHAPTER VI.

THE OLD SCOTTISH CONFESSION OF 1560.

[Sidenote: Alleged Omission of a Chapter.]

Knox, in his 'History of the Reformation,' has stated that the
preparation of this Confession was entrusted to the same six ministers
who were commissioned to draw up the Book of Discipline--viz., Wynram,
Spottiswoode, Willock, Douglas, Row, and himself.[102] It has been
frequently taken for granted that the Confession was prepared and
revised within four days after the formal charge to frame it was issued
by the Parliament, and that the Book of Discipline was not ordered to be
prepared till after the Parliament of 1560 was adjourned. It is evident,
however, from the dates specified in the Introduction, and at the
conclusion of the copy of the Book of Discipline engrossed by Knox,[103]
that the original charge to frame it had been granted on the 29th April
1560, or just two days after the noble