John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . eached in churches, occasionally in the fields,and once, at least, in the street at the East Portof Dundee, so that he might be heard both bythe plague-stricken crowd outside the gate, andby the healthy multitude Early in De-cember, 1545, he ventured, against the remon-strance of friends, to preach in Leith, under theshadow, as it were, of the Regents palace; andafterwards at Inveresk, a few miles from It was at this stage that Knox came underWisharts potent influence. The former had be-come tutor some time before in the

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John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . eached in churches, occasionally in the fields,and once, at least, in the street at the East Portof Dundee, so that he might be heard both bythe plague-stricken crowd outside the gate, andby the healthy multitude Early in De-cember, 1545, he ventured, against the remon-strance of friends, to preach in Leith, under theshadow, as it were, of the Regents palace; andafterwards at Inveresk, a few miles from It was at this stage that Knox came underWisharts potent influence. The former had be-come tutor some time before in the family ofHugh Douglas of Longniddry in Haddington-shire, an ardent adherent of the Reform cause;and he had waited upon Wishart from the timehe came to Lothian. 3 The house of Douglaswas Wisharts abode during a portion of his five-weeks stay in the Knox was probablypresent at the service in Inveresk, about eight * Knox, H. of R., I, 125-133; Cook, H. of R., i., Knox, H. of R., I, 134, 135-^ Ibid., i., 137, Ibid., p.

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