Note 78 — Chapter V
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Born near Haddington, Scotland, in 1505 (d. 1572); bred a friar; was prisoner in France in 1547; resided long time at Geneva; returned to Scotland in 1559. Life by Laing (1847) and by Brandes (1863); Swinburne’s Bothwell, Act iv., gives dramatic rendering of a sermon by John Knox. See also Carlyle’s Heroes and Hero-worship, Lecture IV.