John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s appears to have taken place onthis occasion, or during his residence in the summer of 1556 he received a sum-mons, which he obeyed, from his congregationat Geneva; and on the eve of his departure inJuly, he sent on before him, to Dieppe, notonly his wife but his position in Berwick, as a zealous Pro-testant amid Catholic environment, had appar-ently become more difficult than ever to party, accompanied by a pupil called Patrickand a man-servant, James, arrived in Genevaearly in
John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s appears to have taken place onthis occasion, or during his residence in the summer of 1556 he received a sum-mons, which he obeyed, from his congregationat Geneva; and on the eve of his departure inJuly, he sent on before him, to Dieppe, notonly his wife but his position in Berwick, as a zealous Pro-testant amid Catholic environment, had appar-ently become more difficult than ever to party, accompanied by a pupil called Patrickand a man-servant, James, arrived in Genevaearly in The congregation of Eng-lish exiles there had never ceased to regard Knoxas their minister. In the preceding November,indeed, Christopher Goodman and Anthony Gilby 4 1 Letter to Mrs. Bowes, in Laing, iv., 217. 2 Knox, H. of R., I, 253. 3 Lime des Anglois, p. 3 (A. F. Mitchells ed.). 4 Goodman and Gilby had both been adherents of Knox atFrankfort. Goodman, a native of Chester, followed Knox toScotland in 1559, became minister of St. Andrews at the. IT) T3 a,.5 ID o -T3 C XO r*\A u 2. c o 1559] On the Continent 135 had been elected to preach the Word of God andminister the Sacraments; but Gilby was ex-pressly appointed only to supply the room tillKnox returned; and in December, 1556, thelatter was reappointed, with Goodman as col-league, to the During Knoxs absence the English exiles hadbeen accommodated in the little Church of NotreDame la Neuve, situated close to the Cathedral ofS. Pierre, and used by Calvin as a lecture Livre des Anglois enumerates 212 persons whocomposed the regular membership of this Anglo-Genevan congregation. Among the Seniors orElders (for the Genevan church polity had beenadopted) were Miles Coverdale, the translator ofthe Bible, whose version of the Psalms is still usedin the Church of England; Thomas Sampson,formerly Dean of Chichester who afterwards de-clined the Bishopric of Norwich on account of hisPuritan convictions; William
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