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John Knox and the Reformation

CHAPTER XI: KNOX'S INTRIGUES, AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THEM, 1559
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Their conduct, with the complicity of Percy, was perfectly well known to the Regent's party, and was denounced by d'Oysel to the French ambassador in London in letters of July.

{136b} Elizabeth, on August 7, answered the remonstrances of the Regent, promising to punish her officials if guilty.

Nobody lied more frankly than "that imperial votaress." When Knox says "there is never a sentence in the narrative true," he is very bold.

It was not true that the rising was merely under pretext of religion.

It may have been untrue that messengers went _daily_ to England, but five letters were written between June 21 and June 28.


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