To this party Queen Mary is a saintly being, and their admiration of Claverhouse goes far beyond that entertained by Sir Walter Scott.

On the other side, there is the party, equally sentimental, which musters under the banner of the Covenant, and sees scarcely a blemish in Knox.

A pretty sample of the sentiment of this party appears in a biography (1905) of the Reformer by a minister of the Gospel.

Knox summoned the organised brethren, in 1563, to overawe justice, when some men were to be tried on a charge of invading in arms the chapel of Holyrood.

No proceeding could be more anarchic than Knox's, or more in accordance with the lovable customs of my dear country, at that time.