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"Historia affectuum se immiscentium controversiæ de gynæcocratia." It is in his collected prefaces; Leipsic, 1683. "OEuvres de d'Aubigné," i. 449. "Dames Illustres," pp. 358-360. Works of John Knox, iv. 349. M'Crie's "Life of Knox," ii. 41. Described by Calvin in a letter to Cecil, Knox's Works, vol. iv.
REFERENCES. For the history of this reign, see Hume, Lingard, and Hallam; Miss Strickland's Queens of England; Life of Mary, Queen of Scots; M'Crie's Life of Knox; Robertson's History of Scotland; Macaulay's Essay on Nares's Life of Burleigh; Life of Sir Walter Raleigh; Neale's History of the Puritans. Kenilworth may also be profitably read. CHAPTER
So Randolph, possibly fresh from the sound of the Reformer's preaching, writes of him to Cecil: "Where your honour exhorteth us to stoutness, I assure you the voice of one man is able, in an hour, to put more life in us than six hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears." M'Crie's LIFE OF KNOX, ii. 41. Thus was the proclamation made. Nor was it long in wakening all the echoes of Europe.
Among the translated works spread among the Tuscans are D'Aubigné's "History of the Reformation," M'Crie's "Suppression of the Reformation in Italy," "The Mother's Catechism," Watts' "Catechism," "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a variety of religious tracts.
The carnal mind would not gather exactly what the new penal laws were, if it confined its study to the learned Dr. M'Crie's Life of Knox. This erudite man, a pillar of the early Free Kirk, mildly remarks, "The Parliament . . . prohibited, under certain penalties, the celebration of the Mass."
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