reat services Coverdale had rendered to the cause of
Protestantism by his translation of the Scriptures did not suffice to
blot out from the minds of Elizabeth and her ministers the remembrance
of his connection with Knox and Goodman. He was welcomed at the
consecration of Archbishop Parker, though he came in his black gown, for
they could not well do that without him; but all Grindal's efforts
failed to secure for him a Welsh bishopric, or even to get him left
unmolested in the parochial benefice he conferred on him.

[186] Even in St Andrews, with all its equipment of schools and
colleges, the common people are represented in 1547 as welcoming Knox's
offer of a public disputation, because though they could not all read
his papers they could understand what he addressed to them _viva voce_
(Laing's Knox, i. 189).

[187] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 518; Laing's Knox, ii. 185.

[188] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 526; Laing's Knox, ii. 191.

[189] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 530; Laing's Knox, ii. 194.

[190] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 530; Laing's Knox, ii. 194.

[191] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 577; Laing's Knox, ii. 233.

[192] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 578; Laing's Knox, ii. 234, 235.

[193] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 581; Laing's Knox, ii. 236, 237.

[194] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 532; Laing's Knox, ii. 195, 196.
[Readers who were able to _exhort_ and explain the Scriptures were to
have their stipends augmented until they attained the honour of a
minister (Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 536, 537; Laing's Knox, ii. 199,
200).]

[195] [The readers who had "any gift of interpretation" were to take
part in these meetings (Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 590; Laing's Knox, ii.
244).]

[196] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 539; Laing's Knox, ii. 202.

[197] ["It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture
and ancient authors, that from the apostles' time there hath been these
orders of ministers in Christ's church: bishops, priests, and deacons"
(Liturgies of Edward VI., Parker Society, p. 331).]

[198] The jest attributed to Queen Elizabeth that she had _made_ a
bishop but _marred_ a good preacher shows this.

[199] In the chief towns, just as in Geneva, there seems from early
times to have been a common or "general session," although there were
several congregations in each, as in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and
Perth.

[200] Even the Second Book of Discipline does not sharply distinguish
between the lesser and gr