The terms, he says, were rejected; appeal was made to Mary of Guise, and she gave toleration, except for public assemblies in Edinburgh and Leith, pending the meeting of Parliament.

To the clergy, who, "some say," bribed her, she promised to "put order" to these matters.

The Reformers were deceived, and forbade Douglas to preach in Leith.

So writes Knox.
Now the "Historie" dates all this, bribe and all, _after the end of December_ 1558.

Knox, however, by some confusion, places the facts, bribe and all, _before April_ 28, 1558, Myln's martyrdom! {93a} Yet he had before him as he wrote the Chronicle of Bruce of Earlshall, who states the bribe, Knox says, at 40,000 pounds; the "Historie" says "within 15,000 pounds." {93b} In any case Knox, who never saw his book in print, has clearly dislocated the sequence of events.