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1542.] OF CHURCH AND STATE IN SCOTLAND. 91
" Gubernator. — Clerk of Register, It is our will, and we
charge you, that you gar proclaim this day, at the Market
Cross of Edinburgh, the Acts made in our Sovereign Lady's
Parliament, that should be proclaimed and given furth to
her lieges ; and, in special, the Act made for having the New
Testament in vulgar tongue, with certain additions, and
thereafter give furth the copies thereof authentic, as effeirs,
to all them that will desire the same; and insert this our com-
mand and charge in the Books of Parliament for your war-
rant. Subscribed with our hand at Edinburgh, the 19th day
of March, the year of God 1542. — James G." 1
The clergy had already been highly offended with the
Governor, and had taken particular exception at his enter-
taining in his own family two preachers of the Dominican
Order, viz. Thomas Williams 2 and John Rough, 3 who both
pi'oceeded to censure the Pope's authority, the adoration of
images, &c. in their sermons. Nor is it to be supposed that
the discontents and clamours of the clergy were any whit
allayed, but rather, on the contrary, much heightened by the
1 [Acta Pari. Scot, folio, vol. ii. p. 425.— E.]
2 He was born at At heist on-Ford in East Lothian, and was Provincial
of the Black-Friars in Scotland. Sir James Balfour says he translated
the New Testament into the vulgar tongue, and publicly preached against
the Pope's authority, and that he was winked at by the Regent, and sup-
ported by the Noblemen that had returned lately from England. — [Annals,
vol. i. p. 277.— E.]
a He entered among the Black-Friars in the town of Stirling at the
age of seventeen years, where he remained the space of sixteen years, at
which time the Lord Governor, having a favour for him, asked of the
Cardinal to grant him liberty to come out of his monastery and become
liis Lordship's chaplain, in winch station he continued about a year, until
the Governor thought fit to dismiss such persons from his attendance as
favoured the new opinions. What became of Mr Rough afterwards during
his abode in this kingdom, will afterwards appear in this History. He
preached in the towns of Carlisle, Berwick, and Newcastle, in the reign
of Edward VI., King of England. But in the succeeding reign of Queen
Mary lie fled into the Loav Countries, and, together with his wife, gamed
Ins livelihood by knitting of stockings, capes, &c.at Nordin in East Frise-
land ; until the end of October 1557, that he came over into England for
providing of necessaries for his occupation. There he was elected preacher
to a private congregation, but was taken at Islington, a suburb of London,
Sunday the 12th day of December thereafter, and burnt to death on the
22d of the said month. — [An account of John Rough, wliosc companion in
suffering at the stake was a female, is given in Fox's " Acts and Monu-
ments." — E.]