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and this he did supposing that Alexander Whitelaw had been John Knox." So much Knox states in his Book II., writing probably in September or October 1559.

But he does not here say what Alexander Whitelaw and William Knox had been doing, or inform us how he himself was concerned in the matter.

He could not reveal the facts when writing in the early autumn of 1559, because the brethren were then still taking the line that they were loyal, and were suffering from the Regent's breaches of treaty, as in the matter of the broken chair.
The sole allusion here made by Knox to the English intrigues, before they were manifest to all mankind in September, is this, "Because England was of the same religion, and lay next to us, it was judged expedient first to prove them, which we did by one or two messengers, as hereafter, in its own place, more amply shall be declared." {151b} He later inserted in Book III.

some account of the intrigues of July-August 1559, "in its own place," namely, in a part of his work occupied with the occurrences of January 1560.