Vulgar words in John Knox and the Reformation (Page 1)
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{7} Knox had only to keep his eyes and ears open, to observe the clerical ignorance and corruption which resulted in great part from the Scottish habit of securing wealthy Church offices for ignorant, brutal, and licentious younger sons and bastards of noble families.
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the Lord James Stewart, Mary's bastard brother, Prior of St. Andrews and of Pittenweem, was still very young.
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The Duke's bastard brother, again, the Archbishop, sharing his family ambition, was in no mood for burning heretics.
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The clergy were to live cleanly, and not to keep their bastards at home.
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That priests, by the prescription of fifteen centuries, should have persuaded themselves of their own power to damn men's souls to hell, cut them off from the Christian community, and hand them over to the devil, is a painful circumstance.
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They caused one James Cocky, a gold worker, to forge the great seal of Francis and Mary, "wherewith they sealed their pretended laws and ordinances, tending to constrain the subjects of the kingdom to rebel and favour their usurpations."
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The artist, Cocky, was dilatory, and when the brethren were driven out of Edinburgh he gave the dies, unfinished, to John Achison, the chief official of the Mint, who often executed coins of Queen Mary.
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Cocky and Kirkcaldy were hanged by Morton in 1573.
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It certainly secured a thoroughly moral clergy, till, some twelve years later, the nobles again thrust licentious and murderous cadets into the best livings and the bastard bishoprics, before and during the Regency of Morton.
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In his eyes Anglicanism was "a bastard religion," "a mingle-mangle now commanded in your kirks."
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Knox did draw up articles intended to minimise the mischief of these bastard and simoniacal bishoprics and abused patronages (August 1572).