50 ST GILES [PRESB. OF a place of worship. Next year he re- visited Scotland, returning to Geneva by the end of July. On the 2nd of May 1559, Knox was again in Scotland, and on 29th June he preached in St Giles for the first time. At a meeting held on 7th July he was elected minister, and commenced his labours immediately, preaching twice on Sundays and thrice during the week. He bore an active share in drawing up the Confession of Faith, approved of by Parliament in 1560, and the Book of Dis- cipline. A member of the First General Assembly, 20th Dec. 1560, he was Moderator 25th Dec. 1562, and again in 1568. In 1564 he was appointed to superintend the northern churches, and in the next year those of Fife and Perthshire. He preached at the coronation of James VI., 29th July 1567. In the autumn of 1570 he was struck by apoplexy, and preached for the last time, 9th Nov. 1572, at the induction of James Lawson. He died 24th Nov. 1572. At his burial in St Giles' graveyard, the Regent Morton pronounced his eloge : " There lies one who neither feared nor flattered any flesh." He marr. (1) 1553, Marjorie (died Dec. 1560), fifth claugh. of Richard Bowes, governor of Norham Castle, and Elizabeth Aske of Aske, in the County of Durham, and had issue — Nathaniel, M.A., born May 1557 ; Eleazer, B.D., bapt. 29th Nov. 1558 ; both took orders in the Church of England, became Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, and died without issue—Nathaniel in 1580, and Eleazer 23rd May 1591. At the time of his death, Eleazer was vicar of Clacton Magna, in the archdeaconry of Colchester : (2) onPalm Sunday, 1564, Margaret Stewart? daugh. of Andrew, Lord Ochiltree, and had issue—Martha, born 1565 (?) (marr. 1584, Alexander, eldest son of Robert Fairlie, laird of Braid, Edinburgh), died 1st Dec. 1592 ; Margaret, born 1567 (?) (marr. Zachary Pont, min. of Bower); Elizabeth, born 1570 (?) (marr. John Welch, min. of Ayr). Within two years of his death, Knox's widow married Andrew Ker of Faldonside (one of those who attacked Rizzio). She died 1612, leaving a son, John Ker, min. of Prestonpans. Publications—See David Laing's edition of Knox's Works in 6 vols. (Edinburgh, 1846-64).—[Reg. Aim., Edin. Gaum. Reg., Test. Reg. (Edin.), Booke of the Kirk; Keith's, Calderwood's, Petrie's, and Spot- tiswood's Ilists. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Lives by M'Crie,Hume Brown, Macmillan, MacCunn, Andrew Lang, Glasse, Cowan, Stalker ; Leishman's A Son of Knox. Dr Hay Flem- ing has in preparation a Life of Knox.] 1560 JOHN WILLOCK. At first he appears as a friar of the Franciscan House at Ayr. Having joined the party of reform before 1541, he fled for his life to England. There he became noted as a zealous and taking preacher. This led to his arrest for heresy under an Act of Henry VIII., " for abolishing diversity of opinion " in matters of religion. Found guilty of preaching against purgatory, holy water, priestly confession, and prayer to the saints, and of holding that priests might lawfully be married, he was for some time confined in the Fleet prison. After the accession of Edward VI. he was chaplain to Henry, Duke of Suffolk, who had married King Henry's niece, and is best known as the father of Lady Jane Grey. He preached for a time in London, in St Katherine's Church, when both he and John Knox, his fast friend, were granted general license to preach any- where in England. Henry, Earl of Hun- tingdon, presented him to the rectory of Loughborough in Leicestershire, a living which he continued to hold during King Edward's reign, and again during that of Queen Elizabeth for the rest of his life. Thus in his later years he was in the unique position of being at the same time a parish minister in both England and Scotland. When Mary Tudor came to the English throne in 1553, Willock fled to Embden, in the Protestant Duchy of Fries- land. There he practised as a physician with much success, and rose to some eminence. In 1555, and again in 1556, the Duchess Anne of Friesland sent him to Scotland as her Commissioner on matters of trade. In 1558 he returned home, and preached for some time in Dundee, with