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Hist. of England," i. 225, note ^m. Knox to Mrs. Locke, 6th April, 1559. Works, vi. 14. Knox to Sir William Cecil, 10th April, 1559. Works, ii. 16, or vi. 15. Knox to Queen Elizabeth, July 20th, 1559. Works, vi. 47, or ii. 26. Ibid., August 6th, 1561. Works, vi. 126. Knox's Works, ii. 278-280. Calderwood's "History of the Kirk of Scotland," edition of the Wodrow Society, iii. 51-54.
It would have been better that the marriage should have taken place; better that the story should have ended to-day and that the frail link between herself and George Fairfax should have been broken. That accident of Lord Calderwood's death had made everything more or less uncertain. Would the marriage ever take place?
On the rising caused by the introduction of the service-book, he had to flee from Scotland, and was excommunicated by the General Assembly . He wrote a History of the Church and State of Scotland, pub. 1655. It is, of course, written from the Episcopalian standpoint, as Calderwood's is from the Presbyterian.
The reader is no doubt acquainted with "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters" addressed to him and his wife, Lady Frances. J.G.L. See also Mrs. Calderwood's Letters, 8vo. Edin. 1884. Sir James died in 1839.
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