They did bestir themselves in defence of their favourite preachers--Willock, Harlaw, Methuen; a ci-devant friar, Christison; and Douglas.

Some of these men were summoned several times throughout 1558, and Methuen and Harlaw, at least, were "at the horn" (outlawed), but were protected--Harlaw at Dumfries, Methuen at Dundee--by powerful laymen.

At Dundee, as we saw, by 1558, Methuen had erected a church of reformed aspect; and "reformed" means that the Kirk had already been purged of altars and images.

Attempts to bring the ringleaders of Protestant riots to law were made in 1558, but the precise order of events, and of the protests of the Reformers, appears to be dislocated in Knox's narrative.

He himself was not present, and he seems never to have mastered the sequence of occurrences.