." who affixed the written menace on "all the Friars' places," they knew what they were talking about, and could prophesy safely.

To make so many copies of the document, and fix them on "all the Friars' places," implies organisation, and a deliberate plan--riots and revolution--before Whitsunday.

The poor, of course, only exchanged better for worse landlords, as they soon discovered.

The "Zealous Brethren"-- as a rule small lairds, probably, and burgesses--were the nucleus of the Revolution.

When townsfolk and yeomen in sufficient number had joined them in arms, then nobles like Argyll, Lord James, Glencairn, Ruthven, and the rest, put themselves at the head of the movement, and won the prizes which had been offered to the "blind, crooked, widows, orphans, and all other poor." After Parliament was over, at the end of December 1558, the Archbishop of St.Andrews again summoned the preachers, Willock, Douglas, Harlaw, Methuen, and Friar John Christison to a "day of law" at St.Andrews, on February 2, 1559.