John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s discussedin papers read before the Society of Scottish Anti-quaries in session, 1898-99 J by two learned membersof that body, the late Mr. Robert Miller, Lord Dean ofGuild, who regards the alleged connexion of the housewith Knox as legendary, and Mr. Charles Guthrie,Q.C., who vindicates its claim to be one of the housesin which the Reformer lived. The case for andagainst the house in Netherbow stands thus: 1. It was certainly not the abode of Knox, duringthe greater part of his Edinburgh ministry, (a)There is evidence of his having lived in

John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s discussedin papers read before the Society of Scottish Anti-quaries in session, 1898-99 J by two learned membersof that body, the late Mr. Robert Miller, Lord Dean ofGuild, who regards the alleged connexion of the housewith Knox as legendary, and Mr. Charles Guthrie,Q.C., who vindicates its claim to be one of the housesin which the Reformer lived. The case for andagainst the house in Netherbow stands thus: 1. It was certainly not the abode of Knox, duringthe greater part of his Edinburgh ministry, (a)There is evidence of his having lived in

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John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s discussedin papers read before the Society of Scottish Anti-quaries in session, 1898-99 J by two learned membersof that body, the late Mr. Robert Miller, Lord Dean ofGuild, who regards the alleged connexion of the housewith Knox as legendary, and Mr. Charles Guthrie,Q.C., who vindicates its claim to be one of the housesin which the Reformer lived. The case for andagainst the house in Netherbow stands thus: 1. It was certainly not the abode of Knox, duringthe greater part of his Edinburgh ministry, (a)There is evidence of his having lived in another housefrom September, 1560 (soon after his permanentlocation in Edinburgh), until September 1566, andprobably until later.2 This house, for which rentwas paid to Robert Mowbray, on Knoxs behalf, bythe City Council, up to the latter date, was situated 1 Proceedings of Soc. of Ant. of Sc, xxxiii. 2 Robert Miller, John Knox and the Town Council ofEdinburgh (in which the writers contributions to the Societyare embodied, with additions), p. 74.. John Knoxs House, High Street, Edinburgh. [1572] Last Days 385 near the top of Warristons Close in High Street. Inthe seventeenth century a new tenement was erectedon the site which is now occupied by the City CouncilChambers; while the ground, attached to the houseas a garden in Knoxs time, now forms part of the siteof the Cockburn Hotel.1 It was in this house thatMarjorie Bowes, the Reformers first wife, died, nearthe close of the year 1560. To this house, also, hissecond wife, Margaret Stewart, was brought home in1564. It was in this building that in 1561 the TownCouncil gave orders with all diligence to make awarm study of deals to the minister, John Knox,within his lodging above the hall of the same. 2 (6)There is evidence, further, that in 1568 and 1569,Knox occupied a house belonging to one JohnAdamson and Bessie Otterburn, his spouse, whom aminute of Council, in Nov., 1568, ordained to causemend and repair the necessaries of J