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John Knox and the Reformation

CHAPTER XI: KNOX'S INTRIGUES, AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THEM, 1559
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The Regent shall not molest the preachers nor suffer the clergy to molest them for cause of religion till that date.
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Keith, Knox, and Spottiswoode, add that no garrisons, French or Scots, shall occupy Edinburgh, but soldiers may repair thither from their garrisons for lawful business.
The French soldiers are said to have swaggered in St.Giles's, but no complaint is made that they were garrisoned in Edinburgh.

In fact, they abode in the Canongate and Leith.
Now, these were the terms accepted by the Congregation.

This is certain, not only because historians, Knox excepted, are unanimous, but because the terms were either actually observed, or were evaded, on a stated point of construction.
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The Congregation left Edinburgh.
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