1. Douglas Wilson, For Kirk and Covenant: The Stalwart Courage of John Knox (Nashville, Tenn.: Highland Books, Cumberland House Publishing, Inc., 2000): 3.

2. Ibid., Introduction, X.

3. Jasper Ridley, John Knox (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1968): 1-2.

4. Thomas M'Crie, The Life of John Knox (Edinburgh, Scotland: Wm. Blackwood and Sons, 1865): 304.

5. Ibid.

6. Wilson, 11.

7. John Knox, The History of the Reformation in Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland and Carlisle, Pa.: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2000): 6.

8. Wilson, 13.

9. "John Knox, The Thundering Scot", Christian History Magazine 14, no. 2, issue 46 (Carol Stream, 111.: Christianity Today, 1995): 2.

10. Ibid., 58.

11. Ibid., 64-65.

12. Ridley, 46.

13. Knox, 66.

14. Ibid., 68-69.

15.Stewart Lamont, The Swordbearer — John Knox and the European Reformation (Kent, England: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1991): 32, 35.

16. Ibid., 36.

17. Ridley, 56.

18. Ibid., 57.

19. M'Crie, 32.

20. Christian History Magazine, 12.

21. Lamont, 44.

22. Ibid., 45.

23. Ibid., 50.

24. Wilson, 39.

25. Ibid., 40.

26. Ibid., 44.

27. Ibid., quoted from Thomas M'Crie, 69.

28. "Mary I", The World Book Encyclopedia 13, (Chicago, 111. World Book, Inc., 2003): 239.

29. Wilson, 44, quoted from John Knox by Henry Cowan, 135• 136.

30. Lamont, 76.

31. Ridley, 215.

32. Wilson, 47, quoted from John Knox by Henry Cowan, 131.

33. Ridley, 215.

34. Edwin Muir, John Knox: Portrait of a Calvinist (Freeport N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971): 88-89.

35. Lamont, 59.

36. Christian History Magazine, 3.

37. Ibid.

38. Muir, 94.

39. Christian History Magazine, 38.

40. Muir, 119-120.

41. Ibid., 120.

42. Ibid., 120-121, 157; Ridley, 248.

43. Lamont, 89; Ridley, 248.

44. Muir, 120.

45. Ridley, 247.

46. Wilson, 55.

47. Christian History Magazine, 36.

48. Ridley, 264.

49. Ibid., 268.

50. Muir, 132.

51. Ridley, 270-271.

52. Muir, 132.

53. Ridley, 273.

54. Ibid., 276.

55. Ibid., 277.

56. Muir, 158.

57. Ridley, 290-291.

58. Muir, 170; Wilson, 60, quoted from Thomas McCrie, 49.

59. Muir, 171.

60. Ibid., 172-173.

61. Ibid., 173.

62. Ibid., 173-174.

63. Ibid., 176.

64. Ibid.

65. Ibid., 177.

66. Ibid., 178.

67. Ibid., 179.

68. Ridley, 364.

69. Muir, 207-208.

70. Ibid., 213-214.

71. Ridley, 383.

72. Ibid., 384.

73. Ibid.

74. Knox, 267.

75. Ridley, 390.

76. Wilson, 65.

77. Knox, 269-270.

78. Ibid., 270.

79. Muir, 237.

80. Ridley, 393.

81. Muir, 238.

82. Ibid., 240.

83. Ibid., 241-242.

84. Ibid., 247.

85. Ibid., 247-250.

86. Ridley, 422.

87. Ibid., 425.

88. Ibid., 426.

89. Ibid., 428.

90. Muir, 264-265.

91. Ibid., 268.

92. Ibid., 275.

93. Ridley, 453-454.

94. Ibid., 465.

95. "Mary, Queen of Scots", The World Book Encyclopedia 13, 239.

96. Muir, 281.

97. Ibid., 284.

98. Ibid., 292-293.

99. Ibid., 293.

100. Ridley, 511.

101. Muir, 294.

102. Ibid., 297.

103. Ibid., 298.

104. Ibid., 299.

105. Christian History Magazine, 3.

106. Ibid., 42.

107. Ridley, 530.

108. Wilson, 223.

109. Ibid., 226.