{142a} The Regent, to avoid shadow of offence, yielded the point as to Article 6, and was accused of breach of treaty because, occupying Holyrood, she had her Mass there.

Had Edinburgh been polled, the brethren knew that they would have been outvoted.

{142b} Now, Knox's object, in that part of Book II.

of his "History," which was written in September-October 1559 as a tract for contemporary reading, is to prove that the Regent was the breaker of treaty.

His method is first to give "the heads drawn by us, which we desired to be granted." The heads are-- 1.