" (2) Perhaps some sort of license was extorted, as I
have said, from Richard Bowes, weary with years of domestic
dissension; but setting that aside, the words employed with
so much righteous indignation by Knox, Craig, and
Spottiswood, to describe the conduct of that wicked and
rebellious woman, Mrs. Barron, would describe nearly as
exactly the conduct of the religious Mrs. Bowes. It is a
little bewildering, until we recollect the distinction
between faithful and unfaithful husbands; for Barron was "a
minister of Christ Jesus his evangel," while Richard Bowes,
besides being own brother to a despiser and taunter of God's
messengers, is shrewdly suspected to have been "a bigoted
adherent of the Roman Catholic faith," or, as Know himself
would have expressed it, "a rotten Papist."
(1) Mr. Laing's preface to the sixth volume of Knox's Works,
p. lxii.
(2) Works. vi. 534.
You would have thought that Know was now pretty well supplied
with female society. But we are not yet at the end of the
roll. The last year of his sojourn in England had been spent
principally in London, where he was resident as one of the
chaplains of Edward the Sixth; and here he boasts, although a
stranger, he had, by God's grace, found favour before many.
(1) The godly women of the metropolis made much of him; once
he writes to Mrs.
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