e expressed his "strong
conviction that the words and matter of Knox's Latin Prayer Book of 1556
were derived directly from the Liturgia Sacra of Pollanus." On this
point he entertained "no doubt whatever."]

[150] Laing's Knox, vi. 162.

[151] Booke of the Universall Kirk, i. 30.

[152] Ibid., i. 54.

[153] [The grounds on which this opinion is usually based are given in
Laing's Knox, vi. 277, 278. To these may be added the terms of the
summons raised by Sir James Archebald, Vicar of Lintrathin, against his
parishioners, on the 27th of May 1560, for payment of his teinds, &c.,
on the plea that he "is lauchfullie providit be the lawis and practik of
oure realme, observit in tymes past, of the said vicarage, and hes bene
in possessioun of the samyn thir divers yeris bigane, and hes causit
_the commone prayeris and homilies_ be red owlklie to the parrochinaris
of the said parrochin, and uther wyiss is content to abyde sik
reformatioun as the Lordis of our Secreit Counsale plesis mak
thairintill, and als is adjonit to Goddis congregatioun, and takis part
with the saidis Lordis in setting fordwart the commone caus, to the
gloir of God and commone weill of our realme" (Spalding Miscellany, iv.
120).]

[154] Laing's Knox, iv. 137-139. [Laing gives the 7th of July 1556 as
the correct date of this letter, and says that it is by some oversight
that M'Crie in the later editions of his 'Life of Knox' has dated it 7th
July 1557 (Ibid., iv. 140).]

[155] Lesley's History, p. 292.

[156] Laing's Knox, vi. 119.

[157] Laing's Knox, vi. 118. This evidently shows that they used not the
_ipsissima verba_ of the prayer for all estates, but variant words,
"like in effect." [Randolph's letter is dated 25th August 1560.
Alexander Gordon, Bishop of Galloway, was titular Archbishop of Athens.]

[158] Laing's Knox, vi. 13. [This letter is dated 6th April 1559.]

[159] Liturgies of Edward VI., Parker Society, pp. 157, 158. [The
"certain notes" thus referred to pertain to Edward's First Liturgy.]

[160] Lorimer's Knox and the Church of England, 1875, pp. 29-32.

[161] [On the 29th of July 1637--six days after the riot in St Giles--it
was reported to the Privy Council by Archbishop Spottiswoode, for
himself and in name of the remanent bishops, that it seemed expedient to
them "that there should be a surcease of the service-booke" till the
king signified his pleasure as to the punishment of "that disorderlie
tumult"; and "that a cour