John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . ce with our earliestauthority on the point, that he was born at the 1 Munimenta Univ. Glasg., ii. and iii. 2 ^neas Mackay, Life of Major (prefixed to translationof the latters Greater Britain), pp. lxx., ciii., civ. The ab-sence of Knoxs name from the Matriculation Roll at is by no means conclusive against his havingbeen a student of the university there. Dr. Hay Fleminghas pointed out (in a letter to the Scotsman of date 27thMay, 1904) that the matriculation records are manifestlydefective. By the courtesy of Mr. Maitland Anderson,
John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . ce with our earliestauthority on the point, that he was born at the 1 Munimenta Univ. Glasg., ii. and iii. 2 ^neas Mackay, Life of Major (prefixed to translationof the latters Greater Britain), pp. lxx., ciii., civ. The ab-sence of Knoxs name from the Matriculation Roll at is by no means conclusive against his havingbeen a student of the university there. Dr. Hay Fleminghas pointed out (in a letter to the Scotsman of date 27thMay, 1904) that the matriculation records are manifestlydefective. By the courtesy of Mr. Maitland Anderson, thescholarly University Librarian, who is preparing the aca-demic Registers for publication, the present writer has beenable to examine the portion of the records referring to theyears 1511-1532. The existence of lacunce is obvious. In1529, for example, when Knox might very well have enteredthe university, if he was born in 1513, only three incor-porations are recorded, as compared with about forty inthe year preceding and in the year u 43 H,in d H c T3 rf - a £ oo O D u ft43 ni43Ou 0-,in xoa o in is43] Early Years 25 close of the year 1513, or in the course of II. In a hamlet called GifTordgate, adjacent toHaddington, within the bounds of the parish, andnear the ancient parish church, although on theopposite bank of the Tyne, there stands a memor-ial oak tree planted by direction of Thomas Car-lyle. A tablet beside the tree bears the inscription, Near this stood the house in which was bornJohn Knox. The local tradition, accepted byCarlyle, was referred to as old in In itsfavour is the fact that, when Knox was admittedas a burgess of Geneva, he was registered as anative of Haddington, 3 and that he is so desig-nated by his contemporary detractor, This site is also consistent with thedescription of the Reformer by Beza and Spottis-woode as a GifTord man s; for Giffordgate, whichwas part of the estate of the GifTords of EastLothian,
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