Epistle to James VI. prefixed to the
Bassandyne Bible, it is said: "The false namit clergie of this realme,
abusing the gentle nature of your Hienes maist noble gudschir of worthie
memorie, made it an cappital crime to be punishit with the fyre to have
or rede the New Testament in the vulgare language." One of the charges
on which Sir John Borthwick was condemned, on the 28th of May 1540, was
that he possessed a copy of the New Testament in the vernacular
('Register of St Andrews Kirk Session,' Scot. Hist. Soc., i. 98).]

[33] Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 15.

[34] Laing's Knox, i. 58.

[35] [Foxe alleges that Gourlay and Stratoun were condemned and burned,
"because, after great solicitation made by the king, they refused to
abjure and recant" (Cattley's Foxe, iv. 579); but, on the other hand,
the writer of the Diurnal of Occurrents (p. 18) and Bishop Lesley
(History, 1830, p. 149) assert that Gourlay did abjure.]

[36] Such was the punishment meted out to him for endeavouring to do in
a scriptural way what rulers of the church were doing in disregard of
the laws of Scripture as well as the laws of their church. Pitscottie
knew no other cause why he was burned save that "he was in the
East-land, and came home, and married a wife contrary to the form of the
pope's institution because he was a priest; for they would thole no
priest to marry, but they would punish and burn him to the dead; but if
he had used ten thousand whores he had not been burnt" (Pitscottie's
History, 1778, p. 236).

[37] [In the letter, dated 29th December 1537, granting his escheat to
his father, he is described as "_umquhill_ Walter Stewart" (M'Crie's
Knox, 1855, p. 316). Calderwood places his recantation and accidental
death in 1533 (History, Wodrow Society, i. 104).]

[38] [Gavin Logie is usually spoken of as Principal of St Leonard's
(Laing's Knox, i. 36, n.).]

[39] Lorimer's Scottish Reformation, 1860, p. 51.

[40] D'Aubigne's Reformation in the Time of Calvin, vi. 131.--Like his
predecessor Archbishop Forman, who--thirty years before, in the
interests of France, which had richly rewarded him with the
Archbishopric of Bourges--had so cruelly embroiled Scotland with England
and almost courted the disaster of Flodden, Betoun never ceased either
during the life or after the death of James V. to sow the seeds of
discord between the two realms, and so to court reverses to the Scottish
arms, and destruction to the Scottish monasteries near the