Note 47 — ADVERTISEMENT.
Reading edition
In Vautrollier's editions, and in the later MSS. (A., E., I., L 2, &c.) the whole of this paragraph is omitted, and also the following Letter from Knox to Cecil, written from Dieppe in April 1559. The free strain of the letter was not calculated to conciliate the favour of the English statesman; and we need not be surprised to find Cecil, in a letter dated "from the Court," on the last of October, saying to Sadler, "Of all others Knoxees name, if it be not Goodman's, is most odious here; and therefore I wish no mentioun of hym hither."—(State Papers, vol. i. p. 532.)